Moms home away from home

Happy Birthday Sally!

Well Mom is back in the hospital. She was admitted on Friday (6/22/07). She is in room 549 at Hamot. She probably will be there until tomorrow morning. So you ask why???

Mom has been battling a persistent cough for almost two weeks. this has resulted in two emergency room visits along with at least one doctors office visit (could be more, I seem to have lost count). Diagnosis - Acute Bronchitis. She was put on antibiotics, cough medicine with codeine and steroids (pretesone). That was almost 1 week ago and she still has a persistent cough, The coughing seems to be taking a toll on her physically.

But that's not the real reason she is in the hospital. On Friday around 1:30pm she started to get heart palpitations. Her heart was racing and her BP went up. Reminiscent of Florida two years ago. This was really strange because there had been no indications that this could happen. Her BP has been very stable, she has not complained at all about her heart and we were all focused on her coughing. Nina had just visited mom 10 minutes before she had her episode and she was fine. Nina dropped off a couple of milkshakes and all was well. Go figure..

They have been giving mom tests mostly focusing on her heart. It looks like she most likely will be put on coumadin. Not sure what else. I am on my way to the hospital now. I'll update everyone later.

Otherwise, mom seems to be in great spirits. Her memory is excellent and it's kind of funny but I think she is enjoying her stay at the hospital. Dad is also releived to have her in the hospital. Maybe they needed some time apart.

Dad seems good but is getting confused more often. His memory is getting worse but he has moments of great clarity. We all still worry about his driving....

More to follow. I am going to try and be good about updating this site. I will also try to give more details as needed.