I'm posting this sort of late (as in, a few days after she went in) but it's taken me a bit to process this whole thing. In a nutshell, the spring bronchitis/pneumonia she always gets has changed into not only pneumonia, but reduced lung function and heart trouble. The upside---and there is one---is that her doctors seem to be good at putting the puzzle pieces together, figuring out what's wrong and working on a treatment. So I don't have any concerns there.
The bad side of it is...it's not over yet. She's still in the hospital and probably will be until next week at the earliest.
I worry a lot about her now, probably more than I would have, say, a year ago---not because I wouldn't have cared, but because losing Chan...Chan, who was exactly my mom's age when she died, put in focus that no matter how much I don't agree with her on matters political, no matter how tired I get of her endless grumbling....the reality is that one day, my mom won't be there. My mom, one of two people who remembers what I was like as a child, who did her best for me no matter what...one day, she won't be there.
I just hope that day...isn't soon.
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- Krista
- Wife, mom of a preemie, follower of the old ways, lover of anything Irish or Celtic, history buff, trivia nut, Star Trek and Ren Faire geek and costuming fiend. Offer me coffee or chocolate and world peace is assured. Or at least I'll try really hard. :) I also believe in deleting spam. So, to the person or persons who keep leaving me comments in Chinese (along with links to what I can clearly tell are Chinese porn sites) stop it. It's bad karma, to say nothing of being really, really rude.
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