Tuesday night my mum turned up to my house about 10:40pm, in alot of pain, very pale and barely concious.
I drove her to Wodonga hospital, which is about a 40 minute drive from my house, I got her there in 17minutes.
The Dr told me shes very lucky to be alive because with what her body went through when her appendix and bowel burst 95% of people wouldve passed out and died, But she drove 14.5kms to my house and then i got her to hospital super fast.
Im disgusted at how long it took Wodonga hospital to give her pain relief, She seen a nurse 20minutes after we arrived at the hospital and then they told her to wait in the waiting area and it wasnt until another 20mintues when i cracked the shits with the reception that they finally took her in to the emergency ward so she could see a dr, We had to wait another 20minutes before a Dr finally came and seen her.
They didnt give her anything to relieve the pain until 4am and then they told me she would be admitted to the hospital and i had to go home.
Walking out and leaving mum there was hard.
I didnt get much sleep that night, i just kind of tossed and turned, I think i dozed off for a hour if that.
I rang the hospital at 10am the next morning to find out what room she was in before i drove up there, You can imagine how pissed off i was when i found out she was still in the same bed in the emergency ward & they still didnt know what was wrong with her and they were waiting on the CT tech to turn up so she could have a scan to see if that could find something.
I went out to mums place and checked on her animals and got some clothes for her.
When i got to the hospital it was about 1pm, She was still in the same bed, hadnt had much sleep, was still in alot of pain and had been asking the nurse for the past hour to unplug her so she could go to the toilet, This pissed me right off, I had a chat to the nurse and finally got her to do her job and unplug mum from all the machines so she could go to the toilet.
They did alot of tests and scans and finally found out her appendix had wrapped around her bowel, Her appendix burst and also ruptured her bowel as well, she finally got transferred to Albury base where they did emergency surgery at 5pm on Wednesday.
They told me the surgery would take 2 hours max, So imagine how stressed i was when it had been 3 hours and she wasnt out yet, Finally after 3 hours and 45 minutes she was brought out.
She was funny when she came out of surgery because they had given her a "magic button" as mum called it, It was a morphine drip and when she felt pain she had to press the button and the pain went away.
The nurses at Albury were better and a lot nicer, well expect for one, She was a mean horrible bitch.
Because mum had surgery on her appendix and bowel the Specialist said she could have 2 sachets of laxatives if her bowel wasnt working and only if it was a emergency, A male nurse gave her some after lunch and then when i was there later in the arvo the mean bitchy nurse came in and spoke to mum very nastily and made her have another 2 sachets of laxatives, I was not at all impressed by the way the nurse spoke to mum but i didnt want to upset mum anymore than the nurse already had so i didnt say anything in front of mum, I waited till she was brushing her teeth and the nurse had gone back to the nurses station, I confronted her and had a "friendly" chat with her.
Mum had given me her phone to look after for a few days while she was in hospital, After seeing the way that nasty nurse was i gave mum back her phone incase she needed me and i told her to call me or message me anytime she needed me and i would come back up to the hospital.
Because of the reaction her bowel had to the overdose of laxatives she had to stay in hospital longer, I finally got to pick her up and bring her home on Saturday.
Her body is healing and will take about 8 weeks till she is good again.
It gave me a massive fright seeing mum like that on tuesday night, It was so hard trying to keep her concious on the way to wodonga hospital.
I dont say it very often but I Love my mum and i would do anything to keep her safe and healthy.
I didnt get much sleep from tuesday night till saturday, All up i had 9 hours sleep which is no way near enough, I had a good sleep last night and then had a nap today and im very tired and drained still.
I ran my body into the ground a bit and have been paying for it with alot of pain but i will be ok.
Love Always
Mandy
xoxo
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