Mom entered the hospital because of I believe a carelessness in prescribing her Cymbalta and then further carelessness in abruptly stopping the drug. Granted she’s an alcoholic and smokes heavily and these are all bad, but the Cymbalta took a bad situation and pushed it into critical. If it wasn’t bad enough to stabilize her heart, go through four days of DTs, and then not be able to breathe or swallow, it was worse that on Friday, when it looked like she was on the mend, she got up out of bed in the middle of the night, disoriented, and fell flat on her face smashing her cheek, forehead and nose.<\/p>\n
Now in ICU, with a ventilator, and heavily sedated, they have decided she needs plastic surgery to fix the cheek bone tomorrow because it is not healing properly and there are free floating bones in her orbit area. This requires inserting two metal plates. And of course, it requires surgery, anesthesia, and all that that involves.<\/p>\n
Since I have medical power of attorney, it’s been left to me to sign the waiver and so I set about calling each of her doctors to speak to them about her condition. You’d think I was asking them to lend me $5,000. Every one of them have reacted arrogantly except for the ahem, female doctor who has been her attending physician since she checked in. Ask me if I give a rat’s batushka who they think they are, I want to know if she is stable enough to endure a four hour surgery, for goodness sakes.<\/p>\n
But today, T and I went to see her in the hospital and to stroke her head and to tell her we love her, and really what I’m asking for is for her to have a break because she can’t seem to get one these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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