about my mum

[Andreina]

my mum had an appointment with her cardiologist today and well, she picked me up from the train station after work and looked rather tired/puzzled...she had this look on her face that you just can't place to one single emotion.
I asked her what is wrong and she just said that her heart wouldn't be working all that well. I knew that she had some minor heart problems before - something that runs in my family. She tried to hide her medical reports and everything but when she took a nap I read them. She even tried to hide them because she knows that I know my medical language as well as she does (she's a nurse).

It doesn't look good at all... not at all. Her heart is enlarged, her coronary arteries are partially blocked and her blood flow is down by a fair percentage while i bloodpressure is of course constantly rising. She is on the bestest way to have a cardiac arrest which cpuld be potentially fatal according to what I could see from the x-rays and the ECG.

I really don't know what to think or do. I really don't.

 

[Guest]

Don't do or think anything.
Just be there for her.

 

[Guest]

Ditto.

You and your mother will be in my prayers.

 

[peachykeen]

Aww sweetie. Am watching my mom go through chemo for breast and thyroid cancer just now myself. It's shit. Feel free to PM or email anytime if you need some extra support. I hope and pray every day that she will be around long enough for me to give her a grandchild, but who knows? It's scary.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

There is hope. My father in law has had two major heart attacks and has had both bypass surgery and angioplasty.

His heart capacity is 26% of normal. Nevertheless, this 82 year old man plays tennis daily, and walks 40 minutes a day. The only thing different for him is that he now takes a 2 hour nap in the afternoon.


I know his case is unusual, but even under horrible circumstances, miracles do occur.

Be there for her as best you can, and never stop believing.

 

[Debbie]

I agree, there is hope. You have probably heard me say about bigrednz having an emergency triple bypass three years ago. Things looked really grim for him and he had been unwell for only a short period of time.
I hope things work out and that your Mum will be ok. (Hug) I can understand a little of what you are feeling. When bigrednz got so sick I was beside myself and there seemed so little I could do.