Fran Survives

Sorry it's taken so long to update.

Fran survived surgery - they actually had taken her in before I got there - the schedule got moved up, so I didn't have to stay at the hospital as long as I had thought.

She went absolutely bat shit crazy in the hospital. The drugs they had her on totally made her lose her mind.

She called me Friday night and said she wanted me to come pick her up to take her home. When I got to the hospital, Daddy said she had been like that all afternoon. She wanted the tubes taken out and she wanted to go home. They couldn't keep her there. She told me that if I wasn't going to take her home, I could "carry my ass on." LOL it really was sorta funny, but also worrisome, because at that point, Mary and I both were worried that she may have suffered some kind of stroke. But Brent reassured us both that it was the medicine and it was.

She was discharged Monday morning, and the had a medical transport bring her home - because there was no way Daddy would have been able to get her in the house. Even with help. And she's been home doing well ever since.

A physical therapist and nurse came daily last week - it goes to every other day next week, and she's using a walker to get around on. She hasn't been able to get upstairs yet, and it looks as if it will be a while before that happens. But she is doing well after surgery.

What we have to work on now is trying to find out what happened to her to make her fall. Why is she so dizzy all the time. I understand that she is on medication that will affect her blood pressure when she stands up, but she was actually blacking out before the surgery.

Supposedly Mama is going to go to her general practitioner tomorrow to start this next process. Dr. York visited Mama in the hospital and is supposedly already working on this question. Should be interesting to see what does or does not happen next week.

So that's it for Mama - I did manage to use my MP3 player to get some voice recordings of crazy lady in the hospital. Haven't had a chance to see if any of them are, um, interesting, so will let you all know.

Cross your fingers - let's see if we can get through a week with no major catastrophes in my family.