Mom
Posted June 23, 2006 @ 6:06am
[With this update, my older brother nails it, all of our emotion, everything. Thank you to everyone for their prayers and thoughts during this difficult time. -Hurl]Two days ago, Mom was faced with a decision. She had been suffering with an acute bowel obstruction that was not going to resolve on its own. She was in severe pain, even with the morphine. She had a very depleted white blood cell count, she was feverish. They were getting ready to admit her to "hospice"Mom, in her ever strong manner, got out of her hospital bed and walked across the hallway to conference with her children, her nurse, her social worker and the surgeon whom could only be there via speaker phone, and decided to have surgery to bypass her intestinal blockage. Although the risk of not surviving the anesthesia was very real, the risk of not surviving the surgery even more real, and the continuing risk of not surviving an infection very immense, Mom said, "I may give out, but I won't give up!"So...
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