It is horrible seeing how a hospital runs.

I had to call 911 for the first time in my life. The past 2 days have been the total shits in my life.

Sorry I had to rant something somewhere.

Wow wow wow, 911 in Canada?

What happened?

My moms had an intracranial bleed. As stubborn as she is to go to a clinic for something let alone a hospital she agreed that I should phone the ambulance. This happened since wednesday evening. Since then they been given 2 cat scans 1 with contrast injection, a whole lot of morphine, and a couple of Tylenol 3's. She's also had at least 1 lumbard puncture. For those that don't know they stick a needle in your spine to retrieve spinal fluid, from what I know that procedure is a painfull bitch. The first 1 they didn't get any so they are gonna do another one probably later.

So yeah welcome to my hell week.

ooh, sorry to hear this, here's hoping for a full and rapid recovery!

I hope she makes a full recovery, hang in there Splinter.

Well the hospital fucked up and that's never a good sign. All through the morning yesterday they kept telling me and everyone else that my moms was being transferred to a hospital a few towns over.

But after she was transferred we were told that no she was never moved to that hospital and that she was actually taken to Vancouver General Hospital. Abbotsford Regional Hospital is a brand new hospital which was just opened only 2 years ago. Ever since we got there she's been moved over 5 damn times.

This was before they even gave her morphine so this was the worst part. Then they screw up telling me where they were gonna send her which in the end she got sent to a completely different hospital altogether. That place is way to unorganized and that's severely rather important.

The only upside to that hospital is that I could practically live over there If I wanted to. There is no visitor hours, I could just stay there over night like I've been doing the past 2 nights. In Vancouver General they wouldn't allow me to spend the night so that got me down.

I'm still rather pissed that it took between 4-5 hours from when she was admitted to the hospital just to get her painkillers. The first thing they finally gave her was morphine which is good. The first time they asked her "Between the numbers 1-10 ten being the most painfull you ever had, what are you experiencing?" She replied with 15, since the morphine she said it came down to an 8.

Although still painfull at least the worst part of the pain is gone.

That sucks man. You're in my thoughts. Hope she makes a quick recovery.

Well things aren't looking good. They did minor surgery having a tiny camera inserted through her leg and all the way up to the brain. They still didn't find anything. We've been told that from there, there are 2 possible options. 1 is to redo that minor surgery and try the camera thing again or 2nd which is at most worst case scenario, is to go to the source. Brain surgery. That's the last thing she needs is for people even if they are qualified and what not to be poking around the head.

Worst part of it is that before this disaster happened she's been watching the TV show house and saw already a few episodes of people having drills to their skulls. Now she's facing that reality, she was already afraid of the camera surgery but now direct surgery on the brain man. I can't even imagine what she's thinking or having to deal with that idea.

Couldn't see her today since we were told she was getting another test done and with such limited visiting hours and the rather long drive we thought it was best to wait till they finished that 2nd test. I'm going over to visit tomorrow and see whats up and hopefully gather more info on whats wrong.