Reunited!

Mom passed away this morning.

They are back together again!

A viewing will be held

Friday, Oct. 2nd from 4pm -8pm

at Risher's Mortuary

1316 Whittier Blvd

Montebello, CA

Her funeral Services will be held

Saturday, Oct 3rd at 11:30 a.m.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Passons Ward

6203 Passons Blvd. Pico Rivera Ca

Burial will follow the funeral at 2:00 p.m. at

Rose Hills

Garden of Rest

WOW!

Today she was just nuts! Can't put together the right words to make an intelligent sentence. She refused most of anything they wanted to do to her today. I made her put the oxygen back on. She refused dialysis at first, but Marty talked her into it. Unfortunately, she wasn't any better after dialysis. I had to call the Dr. tonight. HA! They keep drawing blood from her left arm, when she has a perfectly good pik line!!! So, I called the dr. to inform him that the blood had better been drawn from her pik line. If I go tomorrow and find more bruises and gauze and tape. Someone's going to be in big trouble!

So there you have it!

Back in the Hospital

She was moved back to the hospital last night. Her blood pressure was too low. She spent 19 hours in the ER. Now she's in room 508. She might be sent back to Rio Hondo after dialysis tomorrow if they don't find anything wrong with her. She was much more alert than she has been, but she was still goofy! If you ever saw the SNL skit with Tom Hanks on the game show....short term memory guy! Everytime she found out she was in the hospital she was so surprised! She must have asked 10 times. The last time she asked what hotel she was in!!!!
So...another day...another adventure!!!!

Oops!

I guess I haven't updated in a few days. Now that she's at Rio Hondo, there's not a lot to report. Dr. Yu called today and the bone marrow biopsy came back negative for everything.
They got her a new mattress...an air mattress for her bed sore. It makes the mattress higher than the bed rails, so hopefully she won't fall out of bed!!! Yesterday, I noticed that she had a cottonball and tape on her wrist. The bozo's had drawn blood out of her wrist instead of her pik line. I made sure Dr. Yu knew about that and I will double check tomorrow with Rio Hondo that he did give that order!!! She was complaining tonight about pureed food, so tomorrow I will try and get the speech therapist to come see her so she can have real food again! She sent me home at 6:30 tonight. She was much more her normal self today! I'll write again if there's a change or something amusing to report!

5 and 6 got back together!!!

I never knew they were separated!!!!
The mother is doing okay at Rio Hondo. I was happier with her care there, today more than yesterday. She ate all her lunch and dinner. Physical therapy and Occupational therapy came to visit and evaluate. She will start both tomorrow.
She doesn't understand why she has to be moved and hurt! She has to be changed and rolled from side to side to keep off the bed sore on her bottom!!!!
I'm eager to see how she progesses with therapy!!! Stay tuned!

New abode

She was moved last night around 9pm to Rio Hondo. She's in room 117.
She was mostly sleepy today. She was alert in the morning, but she was achy so she had a vicadin. She was very sweaty all day. Her right hand is starting to swell again. Yee haw! Tomorrow is dialysis. We'll see what they say about the swelling. I did see her bed sore today and it's much better than the last time I saw it!!!! That's it!

It's Moving Day

Dr. Yu said she'd be moved back to Rio Hondo tonight around 7:30p.m. She's had an okay day. She wouldn't let them bathe or change her she says. So, it will be interesting to see what happens at Rio Hondo! Dr. Lee said the arm biopsy was negative, although we still have to wait for the cultures. Tb is a slow growing culture so we won't know for sure until 8 weeks? maybe? Other than that...her white blood cells are stable and have been for a few days. So...it's time for rehab!!! Hopefully they'll get her to feed herself and let them change & bathe her!

ORNERY!!!!

Patricia spent most of the day with Gma today. I was at Heather's funeral and then Eddie had arranged to go to dinner with his son, Kevin. So I only saw mom for a few minutes tonight. She was so not nice!!! Whe talked about stuff that wasn't in the room: butterflies, books, etc. She said she wanted 7up and so we gave her some and instead of sucking on the straw she blew 7up all over herself. She wanted to get up and move and we told her she couldn't! She was just very aggitated and ornery!!!! Dr. Lee said that he was okay with her leaving the hospital. All the other drs. came in while she was on dialysis. According to Marty they've taken about 12 lbs of fluid off her in the last week! 2 liters a day! So....should be interesting. She'll probably move back to Rio Hondo Subacute and Nursing Center soon. I plan to be at the hospital for most of the day tomorrow. Depending on how she is! I may leave a little early in the evening after dinner!

Well...

not much to report today. Still no results on bone marrow biopsy or underarm biopsy. Dr. Chuong requested another round of dialysis today, just to remove the fluid that had built up in her right arm and her left thigh! The fluid is mostly out of her right hand, but they've elevated it, so it's just run down to her upper arm. Yesterday Marty was able to remove...um...2 liters? I don't know if that's right....2 what ever measurement it is. Tonight she will do the same. Or try to get out as much as possible!
Mom was alert this morning but in pain so after breakfast we requested vicadin. After lunch, more like 2ish we requested another one. She was moaning in pain by that time. She was then very goofy and I wrote down some of the goofy stuff she said. All I can remember right now is that she wants two hats to wear next week. And.."they're naughty!" who? "those women who don't do what they're supposed to!"
Tomorrow Patricia will be on breakfast watch. We're going to Heather's funeral. And Patricia will be on dinner watch. We're taking Eddie's son Kevin out to dinner!
If you're wondering why we haven't text lately....it's because we don't have a texting plan and our texting bill alone was $140.00 last month! We don't have time (or energy) to change plans at the moment, so we're just not texting!

She's back....but......

Well, I arrived at the hospital this morning to find a wide awake mudder! I was so happy. I guess it must be the blood transufsions that bring her back to life. She got two more units yesterday! So we chatted. I got some good information from her regarding her choices if we have to make one eventually. I thought we were doing really good until she handed me a piece of paper and asked me to throw it away. It was an invisible piece of paper!!!!!
Eddie came to visit and she told him, "Thanks for bringing so much fun into our house!"
I only talked to two drs. today.
She had the biospy on the lump under her arm today. Yes, the 2nd one! It will probably be a while before we have results so she could be transfered back to Rio Hondo as early as tomorrow. We'll see. Her white blood cell levels are back to normal. Have been for two days. Dr. Lee expected them to go up with the transfusions, but they didn't.
They finally took that goofy cast off her leg. She now has a boot!!! Kinda looks like something Frankenstein would wear! She only had vicadin today.
It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings. She was supposed to have dialysis at 8:30 p.m. Visiting hours are over at 8:00....so we know Marty's with her now dialyzing her!!!

Busy Day

So last night after I left, she had x-rays taken of her left knee. This morning she had a fistulagram of her right arm. They put a stent in. She did okay with that. She ate a good lunch and then they took chest x-rays. The white blood cell test showed the white blood cells congregating in her lungs. That's why they took the chest x-ray. She also was given more vancomycin today. She had a vicadin around 2:30 and an hour later some morphine for the pain. I asked Dr. Yu today about her broken leg. Dr. Cho had wanted to see her two weeks after the 10th of August! It's September 1st. So, Dr. Alexander, another Ortho dr. will see her tomorrow. She has to have new x-rays of her right leg taken before tomorrow when she sees Dr. Alexander. Marty got to her room around 4pm for dialysis. I'll be going back in a few minutes to feed her dinner. She wasn't as sleepy today, but she wasn't that alert either. She was very uncomfortable! I have to tell them to give her pain meds, because if they ask her if she wants them, she says no! She's not very with it! Maybe she'll perk up after dialysis!