Yesterday, Mom was having some uncontrolled bleeding from her nose and ears. She also was feeling more fatigued than usual. My grandfather ran some bloodwork and noticed that her Coumadin was greater than 8. Yikes! Basically that means that her blood was super super thin. She also had some low platelet counts, low potassium, her liver enzymes were a little off... etc. Her doctors in New Orleans told her to head the the Baton Rouge hospital to get some IV meds and an assement. Things just kind of went downhill from there. She started vomiting blood in the ER and shortly after, she was being loaded on an Airmed. We really can’t make it up.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been this mad, but y’all I’m ticked. Due to the infamous coronavirus, the New Orleans hospital isn’t allowing in visitors. No support person, no one. She’s by herself. That’s ok though, because the nurses will all know me by name and probably hate me by the time this is over. Yes, at 2 AM I was still up getting updates. I don’t play around when it comes to my Mom, and I will be her advocate from the phone. The information has been scarce and I wish I had more specific things to ask for prayers for. A few things have been thrown around and I’m going to tell you all of them, so you can pray away each one specifically. First, there has been concern about a possible issue with the right side of her heart. I’m not believing it though and I refuse to accept it. The second is possible DIC. I’m really refusing to believe that one. I think what’s most important now is to pray for her lab levels to return to normal. I don’t need a scientific explanation for why things went south because I have a Jesus reason for why they are going to get better. I’m asking you, friends, to believe with me for better labs this afternoon. Shocking those doctors is something Jesus is known for doing, and I’m confident it will happen again today.
My Mom is so strong. I’ve never met someone who fights like she does. She is struggling today because she’s alone. Her cheerleaders aren’t physically there with her, and that’s hard. Please pray for peace for her. Please ask the Lord to allow not let her feel alone, because she’s not. Last night was probably one of my worst nights, emotionally. I was so mad that I might have kicked the bathroom door a few times. I sat on the floor and was begging the Lord to give me a vision... to show me this was going to be ok. I literally pictured my Mom in the hospital room and sitting next to her was Jesus. She is not alone. She has the best advocate, and no maybe it can’t be me at this time but it’s so much better than I could ever be. He is her strength, her defender, her counsel and her great physician. He’s got this and today I’m resting in Him.
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