Not good.
I took her to the doctor at noon. She looked AWFUL. The lady said the Dr. was running behind schedule. I told her Mom was VERY ill and needed to be seen NOW. They put her in a room and nobody looked at her until 1 PM. The Dr. said her breast looks OK. The big issue is that she hasn't had a bowel movement for 11 days. So he ordered blood work and an abdominal CT, and off we went to the hospital. I asked the Dr. if I should cancel my flight. He said if it was his mom, he would. And the whole time she looks horrible, she's grimacing, she's NOT in good shape. So I cancelled my flight.
They can't put a tourniquet on the arm on the side where her breast incisions are, so the girl in the lab had to draw blood from her hand (her "good" arm is all bruised, and they can't draw where there is bruising). She was almost crying (Mom, not the lab tech).
We got over to radiology and they called her back fairly fast, but then she had to drink this contrast liquid and wait for 45 minutes. By that time it was 4 PM. They brought her back out and put her on a gurney in a curtain area that they keep at -57 degrees. My teeth were chattering. Mom had blankets, but since she has fever she was freezing WITH the blankets. A nurse did finally give me a blanket, too.
The radiologist came out and told us she could go home because she doesn't have a bowel obstruction. He said the surgeon was prescribing some oral antibiotics because she has fluid in her uterus that might be the source of the infection elevating her white cell count. When the nurse came to take Mom's IV out Mom was telling her that all she wanted was for somebody to address the constipation, because that was her main reason for being there. I decided I was NOT going to take her back home without SOMEBODY doing SOMETHING about it. So I called the surgeon and told them I wasn't leaving the hospital.
By that time Mom's actual surgeon was back in the office - before that we had been dealing with the other partners. She looked at the CT and the blood work and said she would admit Mom overnight for IV antibiotics and enemas (sorry, TMI) to treat the constipation. Hopefully her white count will even out and she can come home tomorrow. They were JUST getting her IV started at 9 PM, and they were going to start her other "procedure" shortly thereafter.
So DH is not working tomorrow (not quite sure how they will handle that in payroll), my friend is still covering for me with Princess, I am here with Diva and I am scheduled to go home on a flight at 9:30 tomorrow night.
Pixie dust, good thoughts, prayers, whatever, all welcome.
I am exhausted and my back is a mess. Even if my back wasn't messed up this morning it would be now from all the hospital chairs!
Hope your Mom is OK.
I thought I'd come home to a few pages anyway.
I serve these over noodles.
