Following on from my previous post, I'm currently in Adelaide. I arrived mid morning on Saturday to the news that while mum wasn't in renal failure as previously diagnosed, she wasn't in a good way at all.
Saturday and Sunday were mostly spent in the hospital, with the three of us kids being in there for over 8 hours each. For the majority of that time, mum didn't know who she was, and was mostly non-responsive, and when she did respond to questions, sometimes it was correct, and other times, it was an answer to a different question.
By Monday she was starting to be a bit better, though there was still significant disconnect between the brain and everything else and becoming clearer that whatever the event was, it was neurological in nature, be it infection or other. CT scan on Monday followed by an MRI on Thursday have shown nothing new, which is a good thing, although it hasn't given us a reason for this sudden turn.
More recently I've been happy to see that she is sitting out of bed and has been showered. Nothing is done on her own still, and a meeting with the oncologist and family members tomorrow is likely to be about discussing continuing care options.
There have been many pluses from the recovering health, not least of which is that my mum is now likely to meet my daughter, who has been having fun without me this last week, getting to the pool for the first time and enjoying some time in the water with my partner.
This is a much nicer image than any of my mum over the last week.
Hopefully in the next week I'll be able to get back to some kind of normal post as well, but we're still doing daily hospital visits and I've got to get the house ready for my partner, daughter and partner's parents that are arriving on Thursday, so I'm not really sure when I'll get time to get back to anything relating to normal, regardless of how I feel.
