Not a Good Week

First I want to wish my sister in law Cheryl a very HAPPY FORTY NINTH BIRTHDAY TODAY - Hahaha - now we aren't the same age anymore! (she loves to rub it in that we are the same age for a few weeks!)

This week hasn't been the best. I'm still struggling with this cold - just can't seem to shake the coughing.

Normally I don't talk to much about health problems in my family but figured the blog was a good way to let everyone know how my Dad is doing - Wednesday morning I was awakened early with a call from my Mom, my Dad wasn't feeling very good - he's been sick with the "flu" for almost two weeks and had some other symptoms. Well he's had many many things medically to deal with in his life - so he really has no resistance - Last year we nearly lost him but got a new set of doctors and hospital and he was diagnosed correctly and has been in pretty good health for nearly a year. Back 1999 he had a "whipple" procedure due to pancreatic cancer - a whipple surgery consists of taking almost all of your organs out it seems - well not all but let me tell you - it's serious and a long recovery - one thing nice from when he was in the Cancer Center for that - they got everything out and he avoided chemo and radiation. Well back to the present - Spent a long nite in the emergency room Wednesday - I took my Dad and Mom down - got my Mom home near midnite and my Dad was admitted to the ICU. The round of tests discovered one problem was pneumonia in both lungs and low sodium and his electrolytes being off kilter - Low sodium can cause stroking and all sorts of problems- they were just starting to get everything under control and last evening moved him to Telemetry. Another early call from my frantic mother this morning and she wanted to go right down - my Dad apparently was calling her all thru the night extremely disoriented and not sleeping - So i got up and got dressed and drove to my Mom's to find out she already left - she apparently didn't want to wait - so i went down there - My brother and I arrived at the same time - My Dad was back in ICU and he's not doing well - he's extremely disoriented. He did recognize me but he didn't recognize my Mom or my brother and that's how it went all morning and afternoon - He's completely out of it and the drugs they are giving him to sleep aren't working - They are running all sorts of tests and trying to keep him "quiet" - he really needs to get some sleep but apparently he hasn't slept since he's been in there which I think this sleep deprivation is causing more problems! Oh my.

So that's been my week. Haven't gotten much else done except read a few books - it helps to escape reality. Oh I did pull a few loops on a new rug I started but that's as far as I got - a few loops.

Hoping today is as bad as it will get and praying my Dad will get the rest he needs for a full recovery. Wishing everyone a good week! Now I'm off to do something I hardly ever do - and that is - take a nap!

joanne