The Mad Chatters thread Part 3

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

I heard that this company gives principals a bonus if they really cut down their budget. So people have told me that's what she is trying to do. We get no supplies at all, even thought the classes are chock full.

Well, she sounds a little selfish. Don'tcha think?!

 

[paigevz]

Okay, things are okay...........I'll be right back, my comp's sort of messed up.

 

[Bbgrizzle]

Well, ladies, I need to run before I fall asleep right here at my desk.

Good night, Denise! I think I'll probably head to bed soon too. My tummy is hurting really bad.

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

Aww! Hope you get to feeling better!

I'll add you to my prayer list.

Good night!

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

Okay, things are okay...........I'll be right back, my comp's sort of messed up.

Good! What a relief. That's a good way to end the night. I'll catch you tomorrow, Paige!

 

[Bbgrizzle]

All right.....OUCH!! I think I'll sign off right now. Have a great evening.

Paige, let us know how everything is progressing. We love you!

 

[paigevz]

thanks guys, her dr. called back. She may or may not have a blood clot, but there is no danger of it coming loose and causing a stroke or heart attack.....she said it's not that kind.

 

[paigevz]

So, she said take aspirin tonight, pick up a prescription for blood thinners tomorrow. Meanwhile she DOES have pneumonia, but it's not bad, so she has antibiotics prescribed for it........it's just from so long in bed. They told her to get up in the wheelchair more, and to try to sit up more when she is in bed............but, the keeping her heart below her leg is what keeps blood clots from forming they said, so I guess she just has to find a balance.......

 

[paigevz]

She was panicky when she called me, so I panicked too. Dh came home meanwhile and calmed me down before she called back, saying that if the dr. was concerned, she'd have told her to come back to the hospital. Thank you guys for being there for my rambling until dh got home and I could ramble at him instead.

 

[paigevz]

Aw, sorry about the tummy and the supply problems Bonnie.............

 

[paigevz]

Anyway, I have no idea what I said and what I didn't earlier, so here's the story: Mom went to the dr. for a scheduled check. While there, she mentioned a pain in her chest she'd started last night. They x-rayed and diagnosed pneumonia, but couldn't tell if there might be a blood clot (in her lung, not in her legs). So, the dr. sent her to the hospital for a lung test.........it's some sort of thing where she had to breathe in this stuff, then hold her arms up so they could go all around, and be still, and she said her arms got tired, so I guess it was not a lying down test............anyway, after it was over, the hospital told her they'd call her dr. with the results. So she went home. Not long after she got home, the dr. called and said the results could be low, med or high (risk of clot, I guess?). Mom's was medium. and ususally with that result they do another test to be sure. Mom had left so they couldn't do the test. Dr. prescribed aspirin tonight, blood thinner script to be picked up tomorrow.

That's when mom called me all in a panic. And then I panicked in turn.

After I had to get off the phone to take care of Lucas, Dad told mom to call the dr. back and ask more questions. When the dr. called mom back and told her there was no danger, she also told mom that she knew telling her not to worry wouldn't help, as she knew mom was a worrier (the tree to my apple I guess), she told her that she had a lot wrong with her as it was a bad wreck, but everything is mendable and she will be fine. She told her she heard my message about the depression, and she feels right now she's reacting normally to a really bad wreck, bad injury, loss of mobility, change of lifestyle and so on, but if she doesn't come to accept it soon then they can think about something to help her "over the hump". All in all, great news.

Dh tried to tell me when he got home that mom always makes it sound so bad as she is so scared, and I needed to just wait and calm down. I was ready to jump in the car and go...............what I would do when I got there, I don't know.

Anyway, thanks for being my shoulders AGAIN and remind me of this next time I flip out about something mom says...............

 

[paigevz]

Kim, are you still here?

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

OMG Paige, I just read your last post about your mom, I haven't even gotten into the rest of the thread where I left off at last night. I know you are a basket case. I hope your mom is going to be ok. Can I do anything? I feel so bad for you and your mom.

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

Bonnie: I wanted to catch you before you went to bed, I hope you are feeling better and did you get your results? Would I be intruding if I asked whether they were what you were hoping for? Fingers are crossed!!!

 

[paigevz]

Everything's okay Mary, the pneumonia is mild and apparently nearly expected..........the blood clot may or may not be there, but if it is it is nothing to worry about..........had a panic earlier though. Thank goodness for this thread, gives me a sounding board when I need it. Kids were fighting, dh was out........................

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

I am soo sorry you are having to do this so far away from your mom. I would have been here earlier, but we took the girls to Busch Gardens for Hallowscream: Jack is Back!! We had a good time, we took them for dinner and the shows and rides. We'll have to go back again without the kids so we can go to the adult haunted houses and woods, they don't like you to bring in anyone under 17.

 

[paigevz]

I've never been to Busch Gardens. That sounds pretty scary.........I don't much like haunted houses and such, but dh REALLY can't stand it, so I have had to go to them for DS.......now he's old enough to go alone.

I lost him once in a huge haunted house. He was 8. I couldn't find him, and as I said, I hate that stuff anyway, so I started crying right there. I was so embarassed. But everyone was very solicitous, called out some guys with walkie talkies to go find him. He said he ended up with two kids about 12/13 and they were in a room with a pyramid, when the pyramid opened up and this guy with a walkie talkie came out and said, "Is your name Nick?" He thought that was REALLY cool until they brought him back to me and I didn't take him back in!

 

[paigevz]

You know that far away thing is pretty serious. I am worried about that. My parents aren't getting any younger, and I've tried to talk to them about this before. This area is just too far out to be safe. If something really serious were to happen that needs quick treatment, they'd not make it. My dad had his stroke there, and I remember us kids having to help Mom carry him out to the car to drive him to the hospital. With that, the damage had been done of course, and they didn't know then how to reverse some like they know now if they catch it soon enough. But what about a heart attack? They'd never make it in time................

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

I've never been to Busch Gardens. That sounds pretty scary.........I don't much like haunted houses and such, but dh REALLY can't stand it, so I have had to go to them for DS.......now he's old enough to go alone.

I lost him once in a huge haunted house. He was 8. I couldn't find him, and as I said, I hate that stuff anyway, so I started crying right there. I was so embarassed. But everyone was very solicitous, called out some guys with walkie talkies to go find him. He said he ended up with two kids about 12/13 and they were in a room with a pyramid, when the pyramid opened up and this guy with a walkie talkie came out and said, "Is your name Nick?" He thought that was REALLY cool until they brought him back to me and I didn't take him back in!

DH lost me in a haunted house kind of thing at Universal Studios while we were on our honeymoon, but we keep going back to them. We are gluttens for punishment.

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

You know that far away thing is pretty serious. I am worried about that. My parents aren't getting any younger, and I've tried to talk to them about this before. This area is just too far out to be safe. If something really serious were to happen that needs quick treatment, they'd not make it. My dad had his stroke there, and I remember us kids having to help Mom carry him out to the car to drive him to the hospital. With that, the damage had been done of course, and they didn't know then how to reverse some like they know now if they catch it soon enough. But what about a heart attack? They'd never make it in time................

See that is the kind of stuff that scares me and DH about our parents. Mine are at least 1 hr. away from a good hospital, 30 minutes from an ok one, but they have no trauma center. DH's parents are even further. The closest large town to them is over 1 1/2 hours away. And his dad is a vet, so he only wants to go to a veterans' hospital or a military one. Drives me crazy!!!!