Mom's Status

I am writing to continue to ask for your prayers for my mom. She is still in the ICU and they are not sure when they will move her out. Her heart is doing as expected and her lungs are clearing up slowly. She is not in a lot of pain other than when she coughs. She is still very disoriented and confused. She continues to see people in her room who are not there and tells us stories every morning about what happened the night before, which are all false.

My sister's fiance was reading up on some of the drugs she was on for the sedation and some of the side effects are hallucinations, and dementia. Not sure to what degree mom has these, but they also said that even though she is not on the medication anymore, it could take up to weeks to fully recover from the side effects.

It is very frustrating to sit in there with her and tell her that those are stories and it did not happen, because she gets so frustrated with me and gets mad. I know she does not mean it, but it is so hard. Yesterday was a long day. I think it was a combination of lack of sleep and just overall stressed out over everything that has happened. My sister and I are going in there today and we are going to bring her a St. Nick present since last night was St. Nick night. She would always give us an ornament growing up for St. Night night.

Please keep her in your prayers and lets hope by Tuesday she is moved up to a regular room. It is also snowing here, 4 inches Wednesday and another 6 coming today....oh what fun!