Just when we were clearing up some of the problems with my mom, a whole other problem has reared it's ugly head. On the plus side, the cardiologist said that mom's heart is not as nearly as bad as they thought. Today she got the news that nothing in her digestive system was cancerous, good news indeed. She got 2 units of blood in a transfusion today because they realized she was pretty anemic. I'm not sure how much volume of blood that is but it took hours for the procedure. She has also shed 15 pounds between the the diuretic and the surgery. So right now it doesn't seem as serious as previously believed. On the other hand, the source of the edema hasn't been found and that is driving the doctors a little nuts because it's harder to pin down than thought. They still don't want to pursue the drug interaction link, but I think they may have to investigate the possibility. No treatment on the horizon right now for her peripheral artery disease, which is all my mom wanted to treat in the first place, except all those other problems have superseded that. And now the doctors say they have found a "growth" on her ovary. I guess they saw it with all the MRIs and CT scans on her, pretty much from the neck down. My mom is sort of disbelieving of this, since she thinks of them as spent organs and not active. I think it is a great chance to find something that is normally not found until it is too late. So I tell her it's a good thing to be found so early. So now the doctors have a new problem to work on but it is completely unrelated to the rest of it.
I brought the kids to the hospital today so my mom could see them. What an exhausting time! A hospital room is really no place for the kids, especially for over an hour. Hideous traffic on the way home too! Tabitha is working on saying more phonetic sounds, and not just sound effects. Practice, practice, practice!!! Well, supper is cooking and bottles still need washing so that's all for tonight.
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