Mom's in the Hospital

Mom has been having a rough time of it the last week. The short version of the story is that she had a fall on Tuesday. The ER docs thought she just had bruised ribs but we found out on Thursday that she has two cracked ribs. Poor thing she was in a lot of pain.

All day Wednesday she stayed in bed under my sister Diega's care. She was in a lot of pain and couldn't get up to fix herself any food. She also stopped refusing any food at all excpect for a 1" square of bread to go with her pain pill. Something was wrong.

On Thursday morning Diega called to say Mom had vomitted a lot and it was all black. She was bleeding internally. We called an ambulance and Mom was admitted to the hospital.

At present Mom is resting pretty comfortably and seems to be in less pain from her two cracked ribs. They give her the good stuff (morphine) when they have to transport her for tests. The doctors are still working on figuring out why she had a tummy bleed, but the biggest concern is that her sodium levels are low and dropping. If it goes much lower she will be at risk of a stroke. The low sodium is stopping them from giving her any tests that involve general anesthesia.

Mom is eager to get home (keeps asking for her clothes) but she's not going anywhere for a while.

I am heading back to Olympia so won't have access to a computer for a while. I will blog more when I can. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers from everyone. It's appreciated.