Try Not To Get Sick During What is Effectively a Holiday Weekend

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My mom's in the hospital and as a consequence I'm not getting the usual amount of opportunities to get online as usual.

She's doing okay at this point, but still not out of the woods. She has a massive abdominal infection, and they're still trying to figure out the origin. There is a possibility that she will need surgery, but that's a bridge we'll cross when we come to it.

From time of arrival at ER to time of admission ... NINE hours. They had her in X-Ray and then CT Scan fairly quickly (X-Ray within a half hour or so, then two hours after that into the CT, but that was based on the amount of time that the contrast material had to be in her system).

Admittedly my hospital doesn't have to do as much stuff as a medical hospital, but come on ... nine hours?? We typically take two to three hours from front door to inpatient unit.

The one upside to the hospital we went to is that the other, bigger, shinier (better, IMHO) hospital I would have preferred to take her to receveived the victims from a head-on collission between two SEPTA trains. We were sitting in triage when my pager started going off over and over and over ... All my mom's specialists have privileges at the hospital she prefers to go to, so she may have better coordination of services.

I'm holding up, she's well enough to be cranky, although yesterday when she was convinced she was going to die I was getting all kinds of instructions ... location of the cemetary deed, and instructions to give her the cheapest send off possible, and NOT to put her in the family plot that she gave me the location of the deed for. She fights with her family enough currently, she doesn't want to hang with them in the afterlife, either. I was told where the deed was just so I could give it to her brother.