My mother is in the hospital - Critical Condition

[gold stinger]

So I went all caps lock this morning in the FFR Friends & Rivalries chat about my mother dying. During the moment in time, me & my brother noticed that one of her eyes began to become lazy, seemingly looking in random directions when her other eye was perfectly fine & centered. We sat her up on the couch, and her eyes began going crazy. It looked as if she was having a brain aneurism.

My brother quickly called 911, and I had to maintain breathing for her until the ambulance was able to arrive. We grabbed our things, put clothes on, and jumped in the back of the ambulance with my mother. We arrived at the hospital minutes after the situation was noticed in our apartment, and she was put on intensive care (code yellow).

We had a Cat scan done as soon as we arrived, because a large majority of her symptons were related to stroke. The scan came back inconclusive and did not show any signs of stroke trauma. A spinal tap was also conducted which also came back inconclusive. Blood tests & urine samples came back clean. After about 12 hours of staying awake over the night, my mother began to experience extreme trauma from stroke. a 2nd cat scan involving ink (used to search arteries, veins, & nerves) returned back positive that she has had major swelling in her nerve right at the back of her neck, which is responsible for talking, speech, thinking, cohesiveness, and some neural portions of the body.

Her white count is low, and she's now in Critical Condition (code red). She's currently being flown to Sunnybrooke Hospital in Toronto where they have a specialist on-hand for this exact issue. Doctor's have come forth and told me that this is one of the worst positions to have a stroke, but it may be lucky that we got her into the hospital on such short notice.

If you want to make a donation drive for her, I'm not the one to ask for money or help in this but I will allow permission to do so. She means life to me and my brother.

If you would like to contact me more about it, please PM me rather than messaging me on skype. I will be away from my computer during this time and the computer I will be in touch with will not have skype installed, but it does have internet installed.

If you wish to pray do so, I'm hoping I can get as much praying as possible. I will try to keep this updated with what's going on, but as far as I'm concerned right now, she's currently being air-lifted to the hospital in Toronto.

[gold stinger]

I'm going to be away from FFR for awhile - at least a week. I will try to post as much as I can.

[TheSaxRunner05]

Wow, damn, hope she gets through this

[Starlight562]

I was hoping for the best when you posted about this last night to Skype. I'm very sorry to hear that she is in such a terrible state.

I will keep hoping that things take a brighter turn and she'll be okay. You're in our thoughts.♥ Stay strong and be the support she needs, it's clear you care very much. I know it's difficult but right now it's best to stay strong for her.

[Kanzas]

I hope all will be well, and you have my prayers!

[portalbob340]

I hope everything goes well, keeping you and her in my thoughts...

[SC_coolguy44]

I'm sorry to hear about this. I hope you hold up well and I hope she gets better.

[Sky Kitten]

Keeping her in my prayers. I hope she will be alright.

[Wayward Vagabond]

damn this is rough. hope all ends as best as it can

[TC_Halogen]

This is absolutely horrible. You have my best wishes and I hope everything turns out for the best.

[rushyrulz]

I hope everything turns out okay.

[Guilhermeziat]

Brother's friend drama, kick out threats and now this...
I don't even know how can so much bullshit happen to only one person at once, hope everything turns out okay, man.

[hi19hi19]

On the positive side it sounds like you did the right thing and gave her the best possible chances of recovery with your quick action. Definitely be proud of that.

I wish the best of luck to you, your mother, and your family.

[Funnygurl555]

Originally Posted by Guilhermeziat

Brother's friend drama, kick out threats and now this...
I don't even know how can so much bullshit happen to only one person at once, hope everything turns out okay, man.

Yeah pretty much this. Hope things get better soon.

[Tarrik]

Hang in there man. My grandad had a heart attack and then proceeded to stroke out with something like 5 clots in the brain. He's still alive and able to walk, talk, function, etc. They thought for sure he was going to die, or be a vegetable if he lived through it. Sometimes you can luck out and just hope for the best. No one deserves to have a family member go through what you're going through, as it's not only horrible for the person it's happened to, but the family as well. Best of luck mate.

[reuben_tate]

I'm incredibly sorry to hear about what happened to your mother, especially at this stage in your life; I can only imagine how you're feeling right now.

However, you have the wishes, hopes, prayers, and support from a large portion of the community here and we're hoping for the best.

[EtienneSM]

Best of luck GS. Really hope all goes in the right direction!

[_Zenith_]

I wish I could show more support besides typing in this thread but something is better than nothing. I send my condolences to your family and you and I pray sincerely that she will pull through. If you ever need a shoulder or even a man-to-man talk, don't hesitate to contact me or any of your other friends here on FFR. I have you and your mother in my thoughts as well as the rest of your family.

I couldn't be more sorry that this has happened to you at this time.

[gold stinger]

My father drove my brother & myself to the Sunnybrooke hospital in Toronto. We had to pack some stuff & get ready to leave for a long stay & recuperation time in Toronto. By the time we got to the hospital, she was already in surgery for angioplasty. It wasn't long that we had to wait for the surgery, and we presumed that the surgery went extremely smooth considering they were finished about an hour and a half early. They just needed some time to hook up the bed that was transferred from Peterborough up to the equipment in Toronto.

I'm afraid to break some bad news in this thread people, but according to the doctors that we talked to that were in part for the head of the surgery, apparently my mother had lost connection with her main artery to her brain during the transfer via Ambulance to the hospital in Toronto. They were quick to try and fix the issues on their end, but the problem may have been persisting ever since the issue was reported, and she may no longer be capable of speaking or talking. She is currently on life support, she cannot breathe on her own, she is hooked up to a respirator.

She is being administered sedatives to keep her in a coma-like state of sleep for the next 12 hours to allow healing from the surgery to take place. Doctors will not know what will happen when they stop the respirator and try to get her to breathe on her own, or see exactly how much damage has been done, but at best they describe it to be a miracle if we are ever to be able to see her back to her former self. Chances are slim and none. Everyone in my family is currently extremely depressed and worried.

I will update this once again after I visit the hospital tomorrow after the 12 hours of sedatives are up and they try to help get her off of life support.

[Kraezymann]

Unreal... Wishing you and your family the best. Hope your mom pulls through