When it rains it pours.....or at least that is what usually happens with my family. This past week has been a challenging one to say the least. Instead of lamenting on all of the chaos and stress, I want to share our successes.
Monday Mom had a chest tube put in to help drain the fluid on her lung. She has had over 2 liters of fluid drained! She struggled with breathing Monday night, but today she was able to be on the trach collar for 4 1/2 hours!! I cannot tell you how HAPPY I was earlier today!
Mom has been in rare form lately so when she let me wash her face with her Mary Kay, I was in heaven. (Mom is bathed everyday but it's with special hospital stuff. Mind you she has been asking for a nice warm bath!) She even allowed me to brush her hair which hasn't been brushed in awhile so it took me a bit to brush the majority of it. Luckily for her, I have a smart phone so we listened to the George Strait station on Pandora. I was delighted to see her mouthing the words along with the music. (You see Mom has ICU psychosis. Most days she doesn't even know my name. This week has been the first time she called me Rob. So when she was mouthing the words to the music, I found hope again. Hope and I have not been friends lately.)
I was able to be with Becca while she had her emergency appendectomy. She handled surgery like a champ! I was able to meet some of her friends, and I am grateful that she has good ones! They stayed with her while she had to wait for me to drive up to Hattiesburg. She was so doped up I should have recorded her and put that stuff up on YouTube!
Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, prayers, assistance, service.....basically for everything ya'll have done to help my family during this challenging time.
Just remember that there is a rainbow after the rain.
Much Love,
Robyn
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