Good Mom update

Mom is doing so much better. She is in the hospital, and she is mentally back to normal. We saw her on Friday after she went to the hospital and she was more with it that she had been. But she did not remember being sick and did not know why she was in the rehab and why she could not walk and why she could not use the bathroom. So that was hard. And then she had more rectal bleeding on Saturday morning. And she called my dad to tell him, the rehab place did not. And when Dad got there, her feet were on the floor, because she was getting ready to try and leave. I was heading to a play-date, so Greg went over there for a few hours and convinced Mom that she had to stay in the hospital and also explained what happened over the last 3 months. And so Mom got so sad, and I talked to her on the phone and she was apologizing for what we went through and so sad. Joey and Jamie went to visit her last night and stayed for 4 hours because Joey did not want to leave since it was the first time that Mom was with it in so long.

We went back to visit yesterday morning, and she is even better! She totally knew what was going on. She knew where she was and what day of the week and the date. She is doing isometric exercises every hour on her own. She knows that she can't drink and was reminding a nurse of it. It is absolutely amazing. Sara was sitting on the bed with her and they were singing head, shoulders, knees, and toes, and hugging and playing. It was just amazing. I called Joey and we were both crying on the phone, just talking about how absolutely amazing it was to have our mom back. She asked my dad to bring back her cell phone because she wants to start talking to people again. My brother brought her some soup cans to use as weights and she is now using those with her arm exercises. And she should be going back to rehab today if all goes well. And she can feel the gas in her stomach and is passing gas sometime (all good and was not happening before). So I am not sure what the hell happened. It is like a miracle or something. I totally can't believe it. So if you are the praying type- please pray that this continues, if you are not- I'll take good thoughts, anything you want to send our way.

I just got off the phone with Mom (Yay!) and she said that the nurse is there and going to help her get ready. Sara and I are planning on going there to visit today. Oh and she does have her phone with her, so if you want to call and say hi, she would love that!