Keeping it together

 

It’s hard to not cry about my mom. I find myself thinking about her last moments over and over. I see myself in the elevator waiting for the doors to open, while hearing the code blue announced on the intercom. I see myself  running down the hallway to her room, I see the code team surrounding her. I hear myself screaming stop, it felt like time stood still as I saw the people moving away from her. The second hand on that clock moved so slow after they stopped the CPR.

It’s even harder to think about since I was getting everything ready at home for her to come home. I still find it unreal. I know that the second that I cry, that I am not going to stop. I have kind of taken a step back and trying to rest. Trying to pick up the pieces, the pieces of my life. I have not been to work for two weeks. E-mails have gone unread and phone calls have been missed and not returned. I have no desire to speak to anyone. Unreal. That is the only word that comes to mind.

I made her memorial cards to give out at the funeral, I even made her arrangements for the service and some for her casket. I had a hard time realizing why I was making the arrangements. I was glad to see everyone that went to her funeral service. My coworkers showed up too, that was very nice.

Sleep has been pretty much impossible, I need to listen to music non stop to sleep. I have to thank Lana Del Rey for the sleep her music has provided.

Coming home at 5

I lost my mom on Friday at 5:53pm. I saw her earlier in the day to remind her that we were bringing her home with hospice. On Thursday she kept reminding to come by early in the morning that way she could be home by 5pm.

I am still in shock. I am mad that I did not get to speak to her before she died.

Dawn

It has been a horrible couple of months. Sometimes it feels that a week flies by every time that I blink. I often find my self sitting in an empty quiet room thinking of everything going on around me. My mom is in the ICU. They doctors tell me that her prognosis is poor. Although she is slowly improving, I am terrified, I cannot see her die. I try to choke back the tears, I try to make sense when answering questions but I cannot. I see myself starting to break under the stress, the anger and the disbelief.

It turns out that my mom did not have stage iv cancer, she had tuberculosis. We have all been exposed to it since November, no one tested for it considering some genius wrote that she had history of cancer in her chart – that was incorrect. I am just super upset that my mom had to go through months of pain and 3 biopsies for them to finally figure it out. Now she is in ICU because of the extensive scarring in her lungs. She is currently septic as well. I don’t know what to make of everything. It is just so damn overwhelming.

This is what I have been up to:

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February & Mom

If you don’t feel like reading a semi sad post, please don’t continue.

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