Ky hills
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My mother had her first diagnosed stroke a year ago last March, then a different kind of stroke in November.
Both took a cognitive toll in addition to the natural aging process. She had had multiple lengthy hospital stays, and has been back in hospital since Thursday. She had been seemingly physically improving then took a turn for the worse. She is now unable to take 4 or 5 steps without giving out. Today she had another liter of fluid drawn from her lungs and it hasn't helped as it did in the past. The diagnosis is that she has congestive heart failure, and leaking heart valves. There is now not any options except heart valve replacement and she is probably not strong enough to withstand the procedure. I have Ménière's disease and have always been hard of hearing almost deaf in one ear and now as of the last month I have lost most of the hearing in my good ear, it is to the point that I can not hear my mother she speaks most of the time.
We just don't know how how much
time she has but as of late it doesn't look to be long. I'm a middle aged man but at the moment I feel like a heart broken and scared child.
Both took a cognitive toll in addition to the natural aging process. She had had multiple lengthy hospital stays, and has been back in hospital since Thursday. She had been seemingly physically improving then took a turn for the worse. She is now unable to take 4 or 5 steps without giving out. Today she had another liter of fluid drawn from her lungs and it hasn't helped as it did in the past. The diagnosis is that she has congestive heart failure, and leaking heart valves. There is now not any options except heart valve replacement and she is probably not strong enough to withstand the procedure. I have Ménière's disease and have always been hard of hearing almost deaf in one ear and now as of the last month I have lost most of the hearing in my good ear, it is to the point that I can not hear my mother she speaks most of the time.
We just don't know how how much
time she has but as of late it doesn't look to be long. I'm a middle aged man but at the moment I feel like a heart broken and scared child.