A Long Overdue Update
Hi Family and Friends,
My apologies for not updating the blog recently. For a while, the news was not good, and I always have a hard time bringing myself to write bad news. Good news, however, I love writing about, and there's plenty of that lately.
I'll try to briefly summarize the past few weeks:
The day after my last post was written, Mom was taken back to the hospital. She had become very sick while at home and eventually could not keep down any of her meds - meds that controlled pain, anxiety, and depression. As you can imagine, things were spiralling downhill rapidly. Back in the hospital, some initial scans caused concern that there was another bleed in Mom's brain. After a couple of different hospitals and a lot of worry and concern, there was good news! No new bleeding after all. Mom stayed in the hospital for a while to stabilize. It was determined that it was a virus that caused her illness. It also caused her to relapse; she got considerably weaker (to the point where she was no longer able to assist in transfers) and backslid in other areas as well.
We were expecting Mom to remain in the hospital for some time, but this past weekend, Dad took her 'home!'...home to the house he is renting, a house more central to town than our house out on Lazy Dog Road. The doctors told Dad that Mom could recover just as well at home as at the hospital, given the right in-home care. Right now it's important that Mom not catch any more bugs, so visitors are encouraged to keep visits between 5 and 10 minutes and to keep children and sickness away.
The news from home is mostly good recently. Mom and Dad seem in considerably better spirits, and are enjoying the freedom of being outside the hospital. They're both glad to be making home-cooked meals again as opposed to hospital fare! I've talked to Mom on the phone several times, and her voice is the strongest it's been in a long time. She and Dad continue to ask your prayers for recovery. Right now, it's nice to see how prayers are being answered in so many ways.
posted by sarah marie @ 9:31 AM
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5 Comments:
We are glad to hear the good news. We think of you Sandy every day and keep praying for your full recovery. And yes, God always answer aour prayers, we need to be open to him and listen. His love is infinite.
Our kids get all the viruses at school, that is the reason we didn't visit you at home.
Love to all you Palmers. We'll keep you in our prayers.
The Sussmans
dear john, sandy, christopher and family,
thank you for the update, it is nice to know that life has surroundings of homecooked meals, private moments together and that you are close in! (the snow today is lovely but not in your best interest this week sandy!!)
may this time everything flow easier and without
complications as you snuggle and wiggle into life
together in a new home with your old love!
have been in chicago and boston with joel for college auditions, such a grand adventure-details later...
think i see susan coming and going let her know if she needs anything neighborly we are all here!
take care and we hold all 9, oops emily's new little guy makes 11, and oops again because jonathan's fiance makes 12!!! anyway, we are holding all of you in our thoughts, meditations and prayers for continued healing, inner peace and moments of joy.
love to all of you from the six of us,
bob,janie and family
p.s.
you have our home and cell number-anything, anytime i am here for you and healthy!. xoxojanie
Thank you so much Sarah for posting this news, I have been wondering how your Mom & Dad have been. I see Christopher here and there and rarely hear from you Dad anymore since he's now in the LaBarre Home, so I was so glad to hear this news.
It's amazing how much you can miss someone when they are in your life fully one moment and not the next. I have so longed to call your Mom and have one of our couple minute phone calls (that really last more like 45 minutes), or spend time with her doing something somewhere. I miss her terribly, she is one of my best friends, and I so miss spending time with her. Not only that but her constant councel and words of affirmation not to mention her smile that changes any bad feeling that I may have had.
We pray for your whole family many times a day, and will continue too. We feel God is leading her down a road to restoration, I long to spend more time with her when she's able.
God bless my dear friend,
Heather~
INGA from Iceland agin. I have been in tough with your grandfather and mother in Houston.
Hope things are going better. Please tell her I´m thinking about her a lot. When you talk to her tell her all the blessings from me.
Bless Inga
God is so good. We are all delighted to hear the updates Sarah.
John is doing such a fine job of caring for your mother. Who would have thought?
We continue to pray for Sandy's complete healing - wonderful to hear of more movement on her left side.
Love to all you Palmers!
Lilly
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