For those who want to know, my mom came out of surgery a little while ago doing just fine. The only issue was pain control (imagine that!).
She is probably going to be discharged in the next two to three days but may go to rehab afterwards (unanimous agreement here that she's going to throw a fit! My mom is soooooo Ms. Independent Woman!).
Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Update
My mom was being wheeled into surgery right as Keith and I left the hossy. We are pretty sure it's gonna take a couple of hours, but her friend is going to call us when my mom gets out of surgery.
As for the doc appointment, the tests, for the most part were normal! She did say, though that I do have one copy of one of the MTHFR genes (can't remember which one it was now!) but since it's only one it's "not significant." We had results for all but three tests, the others were run today and she'll be able to call me with those results. Not too bad.
What really blows is as a result of the layoff and my mom's surgery my BP reading was high (surprise, surprise!!). Since it was high last time (again, surprise, surprise- wouldn't you be a little agitated too if you'd just gone thru your second m/c in a row, came in from work and knew you had to go back to work?!) she wanted to shove meds down my throat, to which I said a resounding NO. I would like to try natural remedies first; so I'm gonna drop a few pounds (can't hurt either way). She still insisted initially that I shouldn't "ignore" the problem, it "needs to be treated," etc etc but I didn't budge. I don't believe in jumping straight to meds in most cases (now if I was preggo it would be a different story).
What still bothers me about what she said was when she basically said that stress had little influence over BP. Right, then. So people cannot have "white-coat" hypertension, as it's called? What about my ER visit for my first m/c- when my vitals were checked at admission it was in the same "high" range but once we went to leave it was back to the normal-for-me range. Mind you I (needless to say) still had pg hormones in me when the second reading was normal.. so if stress doesn't influence BP that much then where'd the freakin' high reading come from? It sure as h*ll wasn't my weight (which, BTW was skewed somewhat, I guarantee, b/c today AF showed!).
Uuuuugh... Thanks for letting me vent.
As for the doc appointment, the tests, for the most part were normal! She did say, though that I do have one copy of one of the MTHFR genes (can't remember which one it was now!) but since it's only one it's "not significant." We had results for all but three tests, the others were run today and she'll be able to call me with those results. Not too bad.
What really blows is as a result of the layoff and my mom's surgery my BP reading was high (surprise, surprise!!). Since it was high last time (again, surprise, surprise- wouldn't you be a little agitated too if you'd just gone thru your second m/c in a row, came in from work and knew you had to go back to work?!) she wanted to shove meds down my throat, to which I said a resounding NO. I would like to try natural remedies first; so I'm gonna drop a few pounds (can't hurt either way). She still insisted initially that I shouldn't "ignore" the problem, it "needs to be treated," etc etc but I didn't budge. I don't believe in jumping straight to meds in most cases (now if I was preggo it would be a different story).
What still bothers me about what she said was when she basically said that stress had little influence over BP. Right, then. So people cannot have "white-coat" hypertension, as it's called? What about my ER visit for my first m/c- when my vitals were checked at admission it was in the same "high" range but once we went to leave it was back to the normal-for-me range. Mind you I (needless to say) still had pg hormones in me when the second reading was normal.. so if stress doesn't influence BP that much then where'd the freakin' high reading come from? It sure as h*ll wasn't my weight (which, BTW was skewed somewhat, I guarantee, b/c today AF showed!).
Uuuuugh... Thanks for letting me vent.
As if TWO doozies ain't enough..
This morning I was awoke by a phone call from my mom's roommate. Turns out my mom is having surgery on her shoulder this morning b/c she fell off of a stepstool (she knows she's not supposed to do these b/c of a bad back!) and broke her right shoulder in two places.
She already had surgery on her left shoulder a couple of years ago for a torn rotator cuff.
I thought 2009 was going to be the BETTER year! What happened? Two months in and already three catastrophes. I think I'm gonna go hide under a rock for the rest of the year; this is ridiculous.
She already had surgery on her left shoulder a couple of years ago for a torn rotator cuff.
I thought 2009 was going to be the BETTER year! What happened? Two months in and already three catastrophes. I think I'm gonna go hide under a rock for the rest of the year; this is ridiculous.
Monday, February 2, 2009
This is it...
...tomorrow's the day!
After a year of waiting for my test results (okay, only a month, but...) I finally get to find out what (if anything) is interfering with my body's desire (or ability, whatever the case may be) to cooperate with me in my quest for babies. If I have to load up on folic acid and/or give myself shots I don't care- just as long as I get a couple of healthy kiddos out of it- BRING IT!!
I guess it's one of the good things (if any) about the layoff issue... layoffs make a very fine distraction from the rest of the world. But I still wouldn't wish ANY of this crap on my worst enemy. It reeeeeeally sucks.
After a year of waiting for my test results (okay, only a month, but...) I finally get to find out what (if anything) is interfering with my body's desire (or ability, whatever the case may be) to cooperate with me in my quest for babies. If I have to load up on folic acid and/or give myself shots I don't care- just as long as I get a couple of healthy kiddos out of it- BRING IT!!
I guess it's one of the good things (if any) about the layoff issue... layoffs make a very fine distraction from the rest of the world. But I still wouldn't wish ANY of this crap on my worst enemy. It reeeeeeally sucks.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Super Bowl??? Who gives a...
So I hung out today at the computer since Keith had the Super Bowl on for a while (now he has Family Guy) and I... well... just don't want to watch the damn thing! Sorry, but I am in one of those I-could-care-less kind of moods today.
Between the layoffs, miscarriage (all discovered in the same month!), upcoming Angelversary (from the FIRST m/c!) and some other personal issues I won't bore you to death with, I just have too much else going on to worry about the Steelers or the Cardinals. I do, however, wish them both all the best.
I think I shall go join dear Keith in watching Family Guy.
Between the layoffs, miscarriage (all discovered in the same month!), upcoming Angelversary (from the FIRST m/c!) and some other personal issues I won't bore you to death with, I just have too much else going on to worry about the Steelers or the Cardinals. I do, however, wish them both all the best.
I think I shall go join dear Keith in watching Family Guy.
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