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At the hospital: waiting it out — 12 Comments

  1. Having lost my own Mother when she was 37 and my husband when he was 48……those hospitals sans clocks and Doctors with their ‘profound’ prognosis are distressful to say the least. Good to hear your Mom is apparantly well and home and moving along. Thoughts and hopes are with you and your family today Neo.

  2. I have enjoyed reading this blog for sime time now. Hopes and prayers to you and your loved ones.

  3. All of us privileged to live for and care for older lives, even parents, know what you describe. But you are there for her, and that’s the life saver. I wish you both the joy of that life, yours and hers. God bless.

    Note: I’m not sure what you use for your source of public medical information, but our family likes the health Newsletter from Consumer Reports, and the magazine itself. It warns one to monitor well your loved one when she is in medical institutions.

  4. also, for good information and normally wonderful assistance, your local/county hospice can be a godsend. My husband died while in southern California….I simply don’t know what I would have done without the San Bernardino County hospice Association. Best of luck to you Neo.

  5. I am a registered nurse. Often, I am humbled by the moments I witness in people’s lives. The other day, I listened to a woman talking to her daughter on the telephone. She said, “I have some bad news; I have lung cancer”. I realized that the moment and those words will forever be with that daughter.
    And I heard it…right before I gave report to the next shift, right before I was to leave for the day, right before I was on to my own life.
    It stops me in my tracks frequently. The saving GRACE is that I can speak these words to the patients…I can be honest about how extraordinary and humbling it is to witness their life developments.
    We sit quietly, hand holding and thinking and feeling….
    I’m glad your mom is okay.

  6. Prayers and good wishes for you both. It’s tough to sit and wait like that. I’m very happy it turned out to be not serious. And I hope for both of you that this doesn’t happen too often – I know it’s very tiring (not to mention the ER being tiresome).

  7. Best wishes for your Mother’s health, Neo.

    Lost my mother last year after a lengthy illness….

  8. Best wishes. We just buried a brother-in-law from pancreatic cancer. His mother, age 101, was at the funeral, fully functional but frail, though she went up 4 steps by herself using the handrail for support. Hope always floats.

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