The Chances

Wow, what a long weekend it's been.

On Thursday afternoon my mom came into MSN Messenger and told me she had been changing the thermostat when she passed out. She hit her head on the floor, and when she came to, she had a big knot on the back of her head. She was wondering whether she should call the ambulance.

In my mom's case, she has MS, so she has trouble getting around at times. This was one of her difficult walking days, so she was worried about trying to walk to the car. Not to mention, she passed out for some reason. So I told her to call the ambulance, and call a cab if she was ok. I would reimburse her cab fare if need be.

On the way home from work I got a call from the doctor, who was having her airlifted to Enloe Hospital in Chico. Come to find out, she had a blood clot in her brain and they needed to have a specialist look ASAP.

Come to find out, all she had from the fall was a bump on the head. It's a good thing she went in, though, because the blood cot was a result of an earlier fall that just kept growing and growing. They set her up for surgery on Friday to drain the excess.

I took Friday off and spent a good amount of the day in Chico. When I got there though, she was having tests run. The MD (not the surgeon) had wanted a barrage of tests done to make sure she was fit for surgery. She got to her room late, and after the hospital we went looking for dinner. We ended up getting home that night around 1am.

On Monday, they finally did her surgery at 5:30pm. We stayed at the hospital until she was out of recovery, and got to see her around 10. She was asleep, but doing fine. The surgeon said it went just fine, and she should recovery shortly. Until then, we just have to be there for her.

She's still in the hospital, and as far as I know, still in ICU. I'll find out more later, since I'm heading up to Chico after work.