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Woah, 3 days without blogging? I am going back to my old habits. Oops.
Firstly, thanks for your guidance regarding the friendship question. Now that I have re read what I wrote I feel kind of silly! And what you have all said is such common sense. I know that the thing I need to work on is contact. Ringing someone and not wondering if I am bothering them. I pre think things too much and I set myself up for failure. I am deffinately trying to improve on that this year.
The photo…..I tried to keep Isaac awake on Friday afternoon because he hasn’t been going to bed well in the evening. WELL, he fell asleep in the car on the way to pick Tobyn up and stayed asleep when I brought him inside. Steve then had major difficulties with him in the evening….I went out, LOL.
On Friday evening I went to my first real crop! It was with a group of woman from the school community. My friend Gaylene had told everyone that I was an amazing scrapbooker….talk about setting me up for failure. I was a little nervous about going after that. But I went and took a couple of albums and the comments were very positive. They would like me to teach them some of what I know, exciting but frightening at the same time. I did have fun and I started working on a layout for possible submission to Up2Scrap. At about 915pm the power went out though. So we chatted for a while and when the power showed no signs of coming back on we left Deanne to it.
On Friday morning my sister came around so we could put together some questions to ask the Dr’s in Christchurch about my Dad.
Update on my Dad. Dad was admitted to Princess Margaret Hospital after he had a fall around Christmas. He was admitted on Christmas day but my bro didn’t let anyone else know until 3 weeks later. Dad has been in Princess Margaret since because he is not stable. They were hoping to get him out to a rest home. There is very little chance that he will go back to his own home. His mood was low and Vaughan thought he had given up on life. Fast forward to Wednesday.
My brother phoned on Wednesday night putting a scare into us….an unwarrented scare. He said he thought Dad only had 2 weeks to live. He had been called by the hospital because Dad had a bad night Tuesday. His body was very cold and his peripherals were very purple. They didn’t know why. As the day went on things improved and they sent him for lots of tests. The tests showed that his heart was OK, and he had a possible mild chest infection. Some meds were stopped and he was put on Anti bots. The information Vaughan had given us was not complete, so Annie and I thought it might be best of we phoned and got the correct information. It is really hard because my brother is the point of contact down there and he is a very busy guy. He also has the stress of his girlfriends mother being unwell with motor neurone disease. So Friday morning I called the hospital and got the house surgeon. He said Dad is severely depressed and they were trying to work out why. They don’t think it is just because he has given up. He was on a major ante depressant but they had to stop it because of the incident on Tuesday night. He is so severely depressed that they had even considered ECT!!! Now that is major stuff. But because he has a history of heart attack he is not a suitable candidate for a general anaesthetic. So I gave the Dr my phone number and said I wanted to be called if there were any major changes. Vaughan is still the first point of contact but because of his work hours etc I may be easier to get a hold of. So I got a call last night saying that things were changing. Blood tests done yesterday showed liver failure. He had a very low mood, was unresponsive and generally, medically a bit of a worry. Because Princess Margaret is an assessment hospital they don’t have the high tech stuff that Dad might need. So last night they moved him to Christchurch Public.
Now my Dad and Mum have been separated since Tobyn was 8 months old, so that makes it 9 years. In that time Mum has moved on after a very difficult break up for her. Dad moved on early in the piece but has gone backwards since his heart attack early in 2006. Mum still loves him and wants to know what is happening, understandably. Vaughan hasn’t really been keeping her well informed. I spoke to Mum last night and she went up to see him today. This afternoon she said he knew she was there but wouldn’t open his eyes. The Dr’s are hopeful that if they can get the meds sorted he will improve and go to a rest home. It is a worrying time for us and I may need to go down very soon. Mum did say she didn’t think there was any urgency for me to go down at the moment.
If you are the praying kind please send a few prayers for my family.
Now that this has become a very long post I will put my day 23 and 24 photos up either later tonight or in the morning.
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