[Janet]

I tried posting with my son's Ipod Touch when I was at the hospital, but obviously that didn't work..lol. Hope I didn't post it somewhere else on the forum and end up repeating myself.

My Mom always goes to my younger brother's house Christmas Eve and eats supper. They had pizza. At about 8:30, they brought her to my house because she always spends the night and wakes up with us to open presents. It took my brother and I both to get her into the house...she was just weak and shaky. She told me she had a BM at my brother's house and there was blood.

After an hour...she decided she would go ahead and go to bed. At about 10:30 I heard her calling me and she was having chest pains. She wanted a nitro pill because it frightened her of course, but then took a tums. The pain lessoned and we sat up and talked abit and then both lied down and went to sleep. I woke after about 30, minutes and went to sleep on the couch so I could hear her better than in my bed. She likes the bedroom really warm and I just can't take it.

I got up with her a few times so she could go to the bathroom and each time, it was a BM with blood. We stayed up since it was 5:30 and I fixed some cinnamon rolls. She had a roll, coffee and some juice. Mom was just so weak and couldn't walk or stand by herself so I told her I wasn't going to let her go to my older brother's house for dinner, but I was taking her to the ER instead. She wasn't happy but agreed.

I felt so bad for Mom and she was crying...saying "why me"...."why am I being punished?"

The GI Dr. came in this morning and said that they would be putting Mom on a liquid diet starting tomorrow at 6:30 and plan for a colonoscopy, but she still needed to be bleeding to know where the blood is coming from.

The heart Dr. came in and said that from her last stress test, there was damage and blockages. That we were not to worry about that now because they needed to get her bleeding stopped because it stresses the heart. Her heart enzymes are high, the EKG didn't show another heart attack of any kind, but the bleeding could be causing it to be high. As soon as they get the bleeding stopped, they will be doing an angio something/heart cath? But it was important to get the bleeding stopped first.

That is where we are now. Mom wanted me to spend the night, but I needed to get some laundry done so I told her I would be at the hospital tomorrow around noon and then possibly spend the night then.

I hope they can fix what is wrong....I'm exhausted. Been with Mom everyday for almost a week and a half and almost fell asleep at the wheel coming home from the hospital last night. I won't be driving that tired/sleepy ever again.

I would really appreciate you keeping Mom in your prayers.