Don't read this until you read the In much better shape than after the original surgery first!
Here's how the story went last night. It was too funny to make up...
We had tickets to the Dallas Symphony "Pops" on Sunday to see Debbie Boone. Come to find out, it was actually the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the first half of the show with Debbie Boone singing a tribute to Rosemary Clooney (her mother-in-law, as it turns out) in the second half. We told Mom when we got back about some of the stories Debbie Boone told (including being the granddaughter of Red Foley of Grand Ol' Opry fame) when we got to her room (she seemed lucid enough at the time).
When we got to the hospital to see Mom, Tamara (my sister-in-law) had been with her most of the day, and left soon after we arrived (it was about 6:00 p.m.). They were preparing to move Mom to a different room away from ICU (a semi-private room vs. the private room she was currently in), so they gave her a pain pill which she took along with her morphine pump. While we were talking (this would be me, Pam, and Mom), one of the machines pumping medicine into her intravenously starting beeping (about every 4 seconds), creating somewhat of a nuisance, but not really causing any problems as they prepared to move her to the new room.
So, we asked Mom what all she and Tamara talked about, and she said: "I got really tickled at her, because Debbie told her that she was the granddaughter of Red Foley, and she was amazed at how she didn't realize that!" While that caught us off guard, the next one was even better: "Tamara had a real problem trying to count between the beats of the machine, and was getting really frustrated that she couldn't fit four beats between the machine beeping!"
Now, needless to say, Tamara wasn't even there for the Red Foley story, much less was she involved; the same goes for the beeping machine story, as she had already left before the machine starting beeping. So, for Mom, the time-space continuum sort of all blended together in the medicated swirl of her world....
At least we know-- she felt no pain!!
So, as we discussed
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
That's funny...She is sounding more like her big sister with those stories. You wouldn't believe some of the stories Mom has been telling the last several months. She told me all about her visit to Pam's school and how they drank coffee all day long. You guys seemed to be in a lot of them. She was sure Dick, Ricky and Pam came to visit her in January and some man took off his clothes and flashed everyone.
However, I went to Lubbock last weekend and she is so much better. There were no outrageous stories, and she spent most of the weekend at the apartment with us. We even went out to eat Saturday night. She is remembering much more, and it was nice to have her more like her old self. The one thing she has never been confused about is Nubbin. She always asks about her and sometimes I haven't always given her the whole story. It is great to be able to give her these postive updates. We will keep praying for her complete recovery, and her getting home again. Dad says Mom really wants to see Nubbin so he is trying to figure out a way they can get here and get back in the two days he doesn't have dialysis. I really think he is the one that REALLY wants to see her. Right now Mom wouldn't be able to make a trip, but if she continues to improve like she has these last few weeks, it can happen.
Thanks for keeping us updated, and I really really like these GOOD reports. Give her our love.
Sue
Post a Comment