Saturday, December 13, 2008

I am living in a hospital

...with my mom.  Mom has a staph infection in her blood.  It probably snuck in through a crack in her heel and has wreaked havoc ever since.  She went into septic shock and had a heart attack.  She was near death for a few days.  it has bee the most frightening experience I've ever had to deal with.  her blood pressure is still unstable.  She's going between 80/45 to 220/180.  They're doing everything they can do stabelize it.  She had surgery this past wednesday on her hip, where they believe the staph infection has made a cozy little home.  Monday she'll have another surgery to irrigate the hip again and insert a new ball and spacer in her hip.  I hope it won't be excrutiating for her.  I want her to come home.
 
And I feel so selfish.  I want to go home.  I need a shower today and have to figure out how I'm going to make that happen.  I'll gladly pay $20 for a room at the hospitality house just for the damn shower!