Not the best news to start my day

[kareina]

When I woke up this morning I started the day as usual--started doing my situps etc. while still in bed, and turned on wireless on my phone so that I could read LJ while doing the exercises. However, when I did the phone downloaded an email from my sister letting me know that mom had had a stroke. Her little sister recently died after having had a stroke, so that word looks really scary in conjunction with a loved one. Luckily, the next sentence was "alert and verbal, but tried", which doesn't sound so scary, she went on to say:

"She had just dropped the girls off at camp, when her arm and mouth suddenly felt tingley. An ambulance was called and took her to the nearest hospital. Current she can't move her right arm much, her right leg is a bit numb, and her speech is every so slightly slurred (barely noticeable).

She got to the hospital soon enough and met all the requirements for them to give her TPA, a medicine that breaks up blood clots and can be very helpful with stroke recovery. She's recovered a bit of movement in her fingers so far."

Which I hope is good news, but I guess I have to wait and see.

My step-sister, A., who lives in San Francisco, will be flying up to Seattle this weekend to see mom, but that isn't really an option for me.

So after reading the letter to lord_kjar and C. and replying to the message I resumed my morning situps (somehow I forgot to keep doing them when I read the letter), then got yo and did my workout, picked some black currants and put them into the food dehydrator, helped lord_kjar with some work on the pantry shelves in progress, and then finally sat down to the computer late this evening. After paging down through lots of fb stuff it finally showed me a post to the Frostheim group saying that tonight was the first on campus meeting of the semester, but it was late enough when I saw the announcement that the people who had attended had already gone home. Oops.

Now I should go do my yoga and get some sleep...

Comments

[katanubis.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're going through this.

But TPA can be a wonderful thing. My oldest sister had a major stroke. My nephew was supposed to pick her up and had just talked to her but she didn't come down to the car as expected. And when he went up to see why, he found her unconscious on the bathroom floor. He called the ambulance and they were able to give her the TPA immediately. She went from being unable to do anything (coma) to being able to go to the rehab place in 2 days, and home to her own apartment without supervision 2 days after that.

It's always scary to hear such things, especially when you can't be there with them. But I've found that thinking good thoughts helps me get through the things until we really know what's going on.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your sister's story, I haven't been in the same area as anyone I know who has had a stroke, and so didn't even know TPA existed. It is good to hear how helpful it can be.

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

Love and strength. My hopes for a full recovery. <3

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry your mum's ill, while you're not able to be near her. I know that the lack of information can be as stressful as anything else when a loved one is sick and you're far away. Treatments and rehab are so good these days! I hope she's back to her old self soon!