Great Update On My Mom!! 6/3/08

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First, let me tell you what's been going on. My mom was put into a rehab hospital/center and because of having a trech, she was put in a long term care facility. She can't talk and doesn't have enough strength to get out of bed. She was suppose to have physical therapy but wasn't getting any at all. Mom was trying to tell us this but we weren't sure what exactly was going on. Dad went to see her alone yesterday for I had too many things at home to catch up on and he stayed with her for 5 hours waiting for physical therapy to show up and they hadn't by noon so he called me to call mom's case worker to find out what was going on and I told her that dad was highly upset. She had gotten the whole administration together and went to see him and he raised hell big time because mom wasn't getting the care she needed and that it had better change or he's going further with this. The doctor looked everything up in the computer and someone had typed in there that they had done physical therapy on mom Friday three times a day which was NOT true at all!! Mom was able to let them know that it was a LIE!! Oh she and dad were highly upset and wanted it fixed once and for all or dad would be sure to find a way to move her somewhere else and more would sure to follow! I should've been there but I had no idea such a thing was going to go down. But later on yesterday the physical therapist did finally show up and they did their job as they were suppose to all along. Dad eventually went home but boy was he hot to trot!! Whoa!! But who can blame him? Now today we all went together so we could talk to the big wheels about all the lying and so on but we wanted to check in on mom first and lo and behold!! The tube to her trech that was giving her oxygen was gone and her trech had a cap on it which means she could talk!!!!!! She hasn't been able to talk in well over a month and I got to hear her voice for the first time in so long!! She was smiling from ear to ear just as proud as a peacock!! Dad used his cell phone and called my two brothers and of course both were on their way to work, they have their own band, and told them to pull over because he had a surprise for them and so they did and he put mom on the phone and both of them cried their hearts out!! They're so happy to hear mom's voice finally and once again!! Then I called my aunt and she just screamed from joy!! She kept saying "my sister is back! my sister I love you!" It was so awesome!! My aunt is sick with the pneumonia and isn't able to come down till she's well again but gosh, she's been here and drove back twice now and we're 4 hours apart so you can only imagine how hard it must be for her to have to stay home till she gets well but it's for the best but still she's so excited and so happy!! Later on, physical therapy came in and mom sat herself up and they helped her to stand and she walked three steps and backwards three steps and walked forward again and back again!! She's on her way to recovery!!!!! She's trying so hard to regain her strength so she can come home!! Gosh I love her so much and we have that special bond back again and for that alone I'm forever grateful!! Can you imagine how grateful I feel to have her BACK?!! Oh my gosh!! Words can't describe how I feel!! She's alive and very coherent!! She has no memory of what had happened after getting to the emergency room except for sketches of it here and there and that's it. I told her all about it and how we almost lost her three times and she was really surprised! I told her how she and dad argued and my hubby and her argued and how she got so mad at them both and I had to intervene and tell them both to shut up and stop it because it's not her!! Just agree with her and all will be fine!! She laughed and said, I was like that?? LOL Oh yeah mom you sure were!! You were going to prove them two wrong and that was that but I made them shut up and agree with you and you'd calm down. She was so awed at the whole thing. I told my husband all along that I hope we did right by her because we had no idea how much brain damage she had and whether or not we should've let her go. It was such a huge decision to make but we had to give her a chance and I'm soooooo happy we did!! She's doing unbelievably GREAT!!!! Much better than ANY of us expected!!!! She needs to relearn how to walk and write and as far as I understand, she'll always feel sort of like dizzy or unstable on her feet because of where the stroke was which is in the brain stem. It affected both sides of her body in different ways. It's a rare kind of stroke and 95% of the time, fatal. My mother is a living breathing miracle!!!! She's talking!!!!!!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEThank you God!! God is GREAT!!!!!! Thanks to each and every one of you for caring and for your prayers and for being there for me at my time of need!!!! (Keep praying please!!) Bless each and every one of you!!!!