I know I asked for prayers for my late father back in late 2009 and I thank you all for that, but now my mother is having heart problems. Please pray for her. She has diabetes and the new insulin is giving her heart problems. I had to take her to the ER on Saturday and her heart is still hurting her and it won’t stop racing. They changed the insulin amounts but according to the blood tests, her pancreas has high enzymes and that is a problem. I’m scared, she’s my best friend and is so looking forward to me gradating from college. Talk about weight on your shoulders. I would be the first and only one of her daughters to graduate from college…then again I’m the only one to ever attend college. This was never a big deal for me until today when she called me and said how much she brags about me and how proud she is of me, etc…giving instructions for “just in case”.
I can’t handle another loss of a parent. Please pray for her.
From the bottom of my heart,queen lynxana, i am wishing the best for your mother. Recently, my grandfather who is almost like a father to me or even closer suffered from a heart attack and he is still on the hospital trying to recuperate.
I know these are difficult times for you, i think your mother is already very proud of you and your standing in college…
I wholeheartedly believe your mother will recover.
Just have faith…
I will say a prayer for your grandfather Lordlore. I hope he recovers soon.
I remember how after my father lost his job at the steel plant, we became poor, (going from nearely 40,000 a year to 11,000 a year in one year) but my mother always found a way to keep us afloat. She sold her 1 kt diamond solitaire to make the house payment. she sold her solid cedar wood jewelery box so she could buy me this voltron toy for my seventh birthday. Mom always found a way to make it happen. She always found a way to make a house payment, she found a way to buy my graduation picture in high school, she found a way to get me a crib for my kids. She always found a way where money was scarce. She always found a way to put food on the table. My mother always sacrificed for my sisters and I. It hurt me deeply when I lost my father, it’s going to hurt me ten times more when my mother goes.
Us T-cat fans are at the age when our parents are starting to go.
From my experience, the best thing you can do at these difficilt times is to be next to your mother at the hospital, visit her as often as possible and pluck up your courage. She will feel very good if all her children come to support her.
If she sees you happy and brave, it is the best remedy for her. The psycological power sometimes can be more valuable than any medicine…
Queen Lynxana my prayers are with you and your family! Please keep us posted on your mother’s health. Remember you can always count on me and all your friends at thundercatslair.
Thank you everyone for all of your prayers. My mother is starting to feel better. She says her heart isn’t racing as much anymore since she lowered her insulin dose (it was too high of a dose), she’s still feeling lethargic but has a bit more pep. I’m still a bit curious to her blood tests but she says she’s feeling fine. I did get nervous the other day when she said she is getting abdominal pain. I did take her to the hospital on Monday afternoon because she was starting to get abdomen pains, but since the ER was packed we went to her regular doctor. Her regular doctor told her to go to the ER, so my mother waited for two hours and wasn’t seen so she had me take her home because she was getting dizzy. She says her abdominal pain is going away but I’m still cautious about the enzyme levels. They told her if her abdomen starts to hurt, go to the hospital. Well, we did that and nothing happened.
How ironic, my mother had me take her home because her blood sugar was getting too low and she was getting severely dizzy. LOL, I bet if I was dressed in one of my business suits they would have seen her right away, but we foolishly wore tee shirts and jeans. Another foolish thing to do was to go there around 4pm, because a lot of people like to go there after school with their kids if their kids have the sniffles or something minor, they never go there for a real emergency. These “so called” sick kids were running all around, jumping up and down in the area with toys and books, giggling and making a lot of noise. They didn’t seem sick to me. It was almost like a backyard barbecue with these people, they all seemed to “know” each other, chatting up a storm and laughing. It took an hour just to sign in with the triage nurse.
You would think that an elderly woman who was at the ER the day before would be taken seriously rather than being overlooked because of a crowded waiting room and the nursing shifts were beginning to rotate for the next shift.
Anyways, thank you all for your prayers, they seem to be working.
Queen…unfortunately Emergency rooms are overflowing because of the state of healthcare. To get bumped higher on the ER triage scale a person has to arrive via ambulance, have blood pouring out of you, complain of chest (or heart) pain, or demonstrate symptoms of stroke. If you appear relatively stable they assign a triage stage of acuity and if you are grouped with the non-accutes you have a long ER waiting room time. I’m curious, what type of diabetes does your mother have? Type I or Type II? Is she on oral meds or just insulin and what type of insulin is she taking?
She has Type II diabetes. She started out taking oral medication for about two years but it wasn’t working too well, her sugar wasn’t low enough so about a month ago she started taking insulin shots with her oral medication. I know the new insulin shots begin with the letter “L”. The thing is the ER doctor told her the moment she begins to get abdominal pain, to get back to the ER as soon as possible because it could be pancreatitis because of her blood test and that was very serious. The doctor doesn’t know why those levels are abnormal and with her symptoms, that could be the cause. From what I’ve been researching, diabetics have a three-fold chance of developing pancreatitis and sometimes it can become chronic pancreatitis, and sometimes pancreatitis can have life-threatening problems. In my mother’s case, she had her gall-bladder removed years ago, and she has high blood pressure. So in her case, it wouldn’t be a regular run-of-the-mill pancreatitis.
Granted, the first trip to the ER my mother was having chest pain and they took her right away. My mother was still having them the other day but she was so stubborn, she said they weren’t so bad to the nurse. bangs head on desk Chest pains are supposed to be taken seriously and my mother, I guess, didn’t want to scare my sister and I so she down-played it. I’m guessing the nurse probably thought my mother had the flu or something, they are not doctors. I’m surprised that even after the fact my mother told the nurse she was in the ER the other day because of chest pains, they thought nothing of it.
Reading this posts has been very heartwarming. And your mother seems like a very admirable woman. My prayers will go to her. Remember the thing that she will need most is you and all her loved ones by her side. Family and friends really make a difference. You’ll see everything will be alright.
