Monday about 11 am Mom went down to her garage to do some things and didn't come back for a while. About 1 pm I went over there to see if she would mind if I stored a vanity over there. When I got there, she was on the floor and had been there for about an hour trying to get up. So I got her stood up and she couldn't hardly keep her balance. She got to her car and said she was heading home. She was exhausted from trying to get herself up.
Once home, she fell again in her room and she hollered for Becky to help her. Becky got her up and to the couch where she laid down to rest. Sitting up, she fell off the couch when Becky called me for help. We got her up again and her left leg wasn't moving for her so we decided to take her to the hospital, she wouldn't take an ambulance. Wrestling her into the car was quite a job.
We got to St. Luke's emergency room at 5:35, I signed Mom in and we were told to wait. The triage nurse saw her in about 30 minutes and Mom wasn't showing signs of stroke...yet she had symptoms. We waited there until 10:30 pm before Mom decided it was time to throw a fit about it. She got mad and complained and they shuffled her right into the E.R. After X-rays, they saw that yes, she had bleeding on her brain. We got everything ready for an MRI and were sent home around 2 am.
Tuesday morning we got there and they were prepping her for brain surgery. They said she was heading to the operating room and we could see the doctor at the O.R. waiting room. The doctor who performed the operation was told that no family was there. So they finished the operation and moved her to ICU. Around 5:30, I buzzed and asked about Mom and she wasn't even at the O.R. anymore! No communication whatsoever!! We got to her room in ICU, she's on a ventilator, the nurse gave us all good news but we won't know anything again until morning.
This morning, Becky finally got to talk to the doctor. Doc paints a lot bleaker picture than the nurses have been saying. IF she regains use of her arm and leg it's going to take a long time!
If we had recognized the stroke immediately on Monday, she probably wouldn't be in this predicament. If they had taken immediate action at the hospital, she might still be walking now. I'm mad as hell and think that a lawsuit is actually needed this time. I don't like people who try to profit from a person doing their job....but this has been ridiculous and completely preventable.
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