I didn’t ignore you all on purpose…..ugghh….my mom is 79….she is in pretty good health overall, she was walking almost 4 miles a day and the dr. told her to cut it down a little, but overall doing good.
So she had a flair up of sciatica so she couldn’t walk as much, but she was still ok, complaining about the back leg pain, but doing ok, I had to take her in for a foot checkup and on the way there, she is like, “I haven’t been feeling well, I get winded real quick and sometimes some pain when I go uphill” , I am like “why haven’t you made a dr. appt??”, she is all well, “I am just getting old and I didn’t want to bother anyone”……OMG…..palm smack….So I said well we need to make an appt for you, she is like ok.
She went for her foot appt and while there told the nurse the other problems she was having and she was told to go to urgent care to get it check out….so we tried but the urgent care wait was 5 hours….FIVE hours, she can’t sit and wait that long so we made an appt for the next day.
I take her to the appt, I am waiting in the waiting room and the nurse comes and gets me and is like “you mom had a bad EKG, she has to the ER now, you can take her or you can wait for an ambulance” I asked “how long before the ambulance can get here” and they are like “it could be hours” , so I said I would take her, they called the ER to let them know she was coming, gave me a copy of the EKG they did and off we went.
Luckily, since we had it all done, we didn’t have to wait in the ER, she was admitted right away, they verified the bad EKG and said they needed to do more tests, after a day of tests they said she has a bad valve and it needs to be replaced, but they have a new less invasive procedure, and after some tests that was they way to go. BuuuuuTTTT, she needed to go the hospital in LA which is between 1 1/2 and 2 hours from where we live to get it all done. By this time I was home and they took her by ambulance at 10pm.
The next day they did a bunch of test and …….ugghh…..nope can’t do the less invasive surgery because…..all her arteries are clogged and they have to do 4 bypass PLUS the valve replacement!!
Of course all my mom is doing is complaining about the back and hip pain and the dr. is like “mam, why don’t we worry about might what kill you, not about the sciatica?!?” you could tell he was at his wits end, because she really didn’t have any chest pain.
So you would think ok, they figured it out, next is surgery and recovery, but wait….it gets better….after being there about 5 days, and us spending 6 hours a day to go up, see her and go home, and finally get a surgery date, it gets postponed because 3 of the doctors get COVID!!
She finally gets the surgery, she came out fine, and because she didn’t have a stroke or heart attack, which is because the sciatica which is causing her pain, probably saved her life, because it made her slow down and not walk so much, she doesn’t have any damage to the heart.
However, she ended up in the hospital extra days because the pain in her back and hip made it hard for her to get out of bed to do the walking they wanted her to do before she could come home.
And all this time we have her 16 yr old, half blind and deaf poodle with us, in addition to our 2 dogs and 1 cat……yeah life has been a little crazy!
Me and that damn Cat! 
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