My mom has been fighting a nasty bronchitis / pneumonia / God only knows what for the past while. We started off by going to Good Sam ER about three months ago because she had a nasty cough that she couldn't shake no matter what. They said it was probably pneumonia and bronchitis and gave her an inhaler, antibiotics, and a stimulant to try to get her lungs working right. It didn't do very much. Since my mom does not have any insurance and it cost a boat load for the prescriptions let alone the hospital bills I talked her into going into valley med urgent care. Well long story short three trips there over the next month or two and they did the same thing new antibiotics, new inhaler, blah blah blah. Well finally the last visit we finally convinced them to do an X-Ray. They did and said they would call if it showed anything abnormal. On this last visit though my mom also complained about weakness in her right arm and hand, she couldn't grasp or hold stuff very well. They said it was probably from coughing so much and it should go away.
We fast forward to last night. She still was not feeling any better and her weakness was acting up really bad (though it had come and gone since the last Dr. visit) so we figured it was getting better?) I got home from work at about 1015 pm. and she did not look very good, had been coughing all night and could barely put her clothes on or get up out of bed. I had had enough and told her to get up and get dressed that we were going to the ER.
We get there and the doctors and all are really nice, hardly a wait to get back to a room. The ER Doc orders a CT scan and a whole lot of blood work to be done, he did not like that valley med had not done very much with the loss of strength and did not buy the coughing diagnosis. So a long uncomfortable night goes on, they take lots and lots of blood then they take her back for the CT scan, give her a breathing treatment and some medicine.
So along comes 3 or so in the morning and the Doc comes in (his name was Todd if anyone cares) and asks how her had was feeling? It was actually feeling a bit better and had some more strength. He said in his cocky ER doctor voice which I loved and hated at the same time that wasn't that strange since they hadn't really done anything... then he drops the bomb shell of the night. He said that the CT scan showed a mass two inches in size in her lung and masses in her brain. My heart sank, I really did not want to loose my mom after loosing my dad not to long ago. I figured in my cocky I know everything mind that lung cancer that has spread is all but a death sentence. The Doc said he had to admit her and that the oncologist would consult over the next few days. Another hour and a half passes and they get her a room, I'm upset trying to be strong and not freak out to much (I lost it a couple of times when she went to use the bathroom though). They brought her up to her room and then we waited...
I'm writing this Sunday afternoon, more on why i'm writing about this later and more details to come soon but all hope is not lost. Keep us in your prayers, and with Heavenly Fathers help who know what might happen. The one thing I do know is that I hope with all my might she does not suffer a slow agonizing death...
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