Update on Mom

Here's the latest.

On Monday, my brother discovered my mom bleeding and very confused/disoriented. He called 911 and got an ambulance to take her to the ER. I arrived around 7:15 at Spartanburg Regional to find mom extremely confused and very out of it. They kept her overnight Monday. Her kidneys were beginning to fail, and they made the decision to transfer her to MUSC on Tuesday. My family visited her during the day Tuesday before they transferred her. She rode in an ambulance down to Charleston Tuesday afternoon.

On Wednesday, Kevin, Lynn and Jordan came to Charleston to be with mom. Matt and I were spending the day in Spartanburg with my dad. We got a phone call at 6:30 Wed. night from Lynn saying that we really needed to get down to MUSC as soon as we could. When we arrived, Mom was very out of it, and was having trouble breathing. They decided to put in a central line because her blood pressure was critically low. We left around 12:30 Wed. night to get some sleep after the nurses reassured us Mom would be OK throughout the night and they would call if they needed anything from us.

On Thursday (Kevin's birthday and Thanksgiving), mom was not doing well. We talked to the kidney doctor about her condition. He told us that, basically, even if we got her kidneys functioning better that she most likely wouldn't be a candidate for a liver transplant anymore because of her condition. She just wouldn't survive the surgery. So, after many tears and phone calls, we tried to make it through the day without breaking down....it wasn't easy. Our family--my uncle Mike, his wife Denise, and my cousin Michael--came down to see mom and be with us.
Thursday night was better than Thursday morning. She improved steadily throughout the day and was even being a little silly with the staff. This thrilled us!

Right now (Friday), we are pretty much in the same situation. Her kidneys are slightly better, but it's not looking good. We are trying to find out how much time the doctors think we have left with her. Her breathing is sitll very labored.

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. My family is going through a lot, and it's the worst time of year to experience something like this.