It's been quite a week...

So this is the week that I was supposed to be on vacation, my long awaited vacation. All I talked about last week was how much I couldn't wait, I would have 3 days at home all by myself the first of the week, before taking Josh for surgery on Thursday. This all went to hell Saturday night, all with a phone call from the hospital, telling me they had Mom there, she had come by ambulance after having a seizure at the home. I got dressed, called Aunt Barb and went to the hospital, scared of what I would find, I could tell by way the nurse talked that it wasn't good.

When I got there the Dr. came right out and asked if he should intubate if the need arose, I told him, no, she was DNR. Aunt Barb got there and we went in to see Mom, who wasn't awake and was groaning. I figured it was another stroke. By midnight she had come around a bit so we went home for the night after we got her settled in her room. I went back up on Sunday before she went for a CAT scan, then went to get her glasses from the home and waited for her to get back to the hospital. When she got back they said that there was nothing new on the scan, just the old stroke, but it takes a few days for a new stroke to show up on a CAT scan. By this time you could tell by looking at her that it was a stroke, her face was drooped on the right side. I went in to see her and was shocked by how much worse she looked, called Aunt Barb to come and then we talked to the Dr. who agreed with us, she wasn't going to get better. The rest of the family was called in and that night, we made the choice to take her off her IV, they told me that you actually feel less pain if you are dehydrated, then started her on pain meds when needed and just kept her comfortable. I stayed from that time on. Monday, she got worse as the time went by, she fought it all day and into the night, we begged and pleaded for her to stop fighting and go but you know Mom, she wasn't listening to what we had to say, she'd go in her own good time. At 1:20am Tuesday, Oct. 7th, my Mom passed away.

To answer the question I hear a lot, yes, I'm glad I stepped in last year when she had her stroke, we never spoke of those 6 years, I don't know if she remembered what went on or not, we never mentioned it, we just went on as if those 6 years didn't exist and I'm glad we did. I'm not saying the last year was perfect, far from it, she was very demanding, and lots of times, a pain in the ass, but, that was Mom, she had been like that all my life, why would she change now? LOL

RIP Mom, I miss you...

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Hurricane Kyle

It's a stormy night out there tonight and the storm hasn't gotten here yet. I worked all weekend, not a bad weekend, yesterday it was crazy busy, today started out busy but as the rain started, the people stayed home. The weekend went by quite quickly thought. By this afternoon the rain had started and by the time we closed the wind had picked up. With Josh being a big weather watcher, we always pay quite a bit of attention to any storms that are coming our way and this one sounds like it's going to be the biggest one this year, or so far anyway. Kyle is about 4 hours off shore and is heading towards Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The wind is pretty high and the lights have flickered a time or two, so Josh is finished his shower and Breanna is in there now, once she's finished I'll head in so at least that will be done if the power goes out. Amazing Race starts tonight so I really hope that the power stays on until after we get to see that. The bad thing about storms this time of year is that the leaves, for the most part, are still on the trees, so the wind can take a tree down pretty fast. I won't be impressed if the power goes out and stays out so that the kids don't have school, last winter and spring, it seemed every day I had off, I had at least one kid home with me, so you just watch and see if they are home on my day off. LOL

My tattoo is healing up, it's just starting to dry out and itch but I've been keeping it moist this time so I hope it doesn't scab and take color off with the scabs like it did on my back. I have very strange skin that scars pretty bad, I think that's why I have trouble getting them to heal. I'll be glad when it's all healed though, it looks pretty good and I still love it, just don't love the itching. LOL

I have to take some pictures of Josh's stomach later tonight and send them off to the bowel nurse at the IWK, he seems to have something on his incision that looks like a small cyst, I'm not sure what it is but I know it's not supposed to be there, it's going to really suck if we go in for his surgery on the 9th and they can't do it, we're both really looking forward to getting it over with so he can go back to somewhat normal activities.

Well I guess I'll go back to watching the news, that is all about Kyle, which strangely enough, 5 years to the day after Hurricane Juan, the last Hurricane that hit us hard, weird eh?

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Another weekend half over

Here we are, the weekend half over, weekends just go so fast, we need a slow motion button I think. Today Donna-Leigh and I went to Bridgewater so she could get her new tattoo. It caused her extreme pain but looks great. I was going to get mine touched up but it's not healed enough so we are going back down on Thursday, my day off. Next weekend is my weekend to work so I have Thursday off and don't go in till 1 on Friday.

Anyway, Doug and I are just laying back watching a movie, so I should get back to the movie!