Friday, May 23, 2008

My mum's in coma...

My mum's in the hospital right now after my dad called the ambulance on Wednesday morning. To be honest, I had actually wanted to send her on Monday afternoon, after finding her on the floor, beside her bed, not knowing where she was and not answering when me and my dad asked her why she was on the floor. Luckily on that day, it was a public holiday cos I won't be able to lift her up on my own... My sis had to work overtime, and my bro was working part-time. It's like my mum's mind was somewhere else. She keep staring into spaces, and when my dad asked her why she was on the floor, she would answer, "huh?" and not looking at my dad. Then, she was back to her normal self after a couple of hours, after my aunt came and see her. She was ok until the next morning.

I was playing the games that my aunt had just bought for me, and no, I hadn't sleep yet at that time, when my bro came into my room and called me. Luckily, my dad has to work the afternoon shift, cos me and my bro won't know what to do if was only the 2 of us, so my dad took an emergency leave on that day. My mum was staring into blank spaces and rambling some nonsense. It went for a while until she fall asleep, I think. Then, when she woke up, she start staring into spaces again. It went on until around 4 or 5 in the afternoon after my dad asked me to bath her using the water that my aunt had said some prayers over. She managed to eat and took her medicines, and she went to sleep around 10. Then, around 6 in the morning, my dad came into my room and told me that he tried waking her up, but she won't wake up, and she had soiled herself. So, I woke my sis up and told my dad that we had to send her to the hospital. So, me and my sis cleaned her up, and still, my mum didn't wake up. After that, my sis called the ambulance, and when they came, they checked my mum's blood sugar and found it to be normal, cos they thought that she had fainted because of low blood sugar.

So, my sis followed the ambulance while my dad had to go to the hospital on his motorbike cos there ain't enough space for him. They admitted her to a normal ward and then, they changed her to the ICU ward after the tests results came back. They told my dad and my sis that she has a minor stroke and a slight brain damage. And the nurse of the ambulance who normally send my mum to her appointments (cos my mum still haven't got her prosthetic leg yet and I'm not strong enough to carry her down the stairs on my own), wanted to scream at me (thank God, I wasn't there cos I might smash her face. I nearly did the other time, but I managed to calm myself) cos she thought that my mum wasn't taking her meds and not eating her food. The fucking thing was she took all her medicines on time, and she did eat, not much (I did asked her to eat more, but she said that she couldn't eat much), but she still eat. She thought that I wasn't taking care of my mum. Oh well, what does she knows?

So now, she's still in coma and the docs are still doing some tests on her. My sis told me that they had put more tubes in, yesterday. Hopefully, by my birthday next week, she's waken up. What I had wanted for my birthday this year was for to be able to walk, not this!

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