My Mom is Back in the Hospital for Chemo #3
By michelle | July 22, 2009
We arrived at my parents’ house on Monday afternoon, and that evening my mom was admitted to the hospital for her third– and last– chemo treatments. Please keep her in your prayers over the next few weeks. She is in good spirits and relieved to be nearing the end of these treatments.
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My sister and I took the kids to visit her in the hospital on Tuesday. The first part of the visit went very nicely, but then Punky had a complete meltdown. The doctors had come to check on my mom, and we think that it really scared him. We were all going to another section of the hospital where the kids could have a little more room to run around in, but Grammy had to stay behind for a few minutes.
I think Punky thought we were leaving her, and he started crying and screaming at the top of his lungs. Mind you, we were in an area of the hospital that was open to about five floors. I tried my best to calm him down, but he couldn’t be calmed. We took the elevator back up to my mom’s floor, but we rode in a different one than the one that had taken us downstairs. I think Punky thought we were going the wrong way, and he fell apart again. Even when he saw Grammy on that floor, he couldn’t be calmed.
My sister gathered everything and we said goodbye to my mom with Punky screaming the whole time. My sister picked him up and carried him out of the hospital to the parking garage; all the while he was screaming, crying and saying he just wanted Grammy.
We all finally got to the car, and I had to sit in the backseat between the two carseats to stay with him. Even Spunky was upset, as she clung to my arm and stayed very quiet. (Almost immediately, she fell asleep.) After a while, Punky calmed down and stopped screaming and kicking. But then he said, “I just want Grammy,” and started crying again. After about 45 minutes from the start of his screaming, he fell asleep.
I have never seen my boy so upset in his life. He loves his Grammy and always tells me that he wants to “hit the doctors” who are taking care of her. He was also unhappy that Grammy has to stay in the “hopspital” for a “long time.” Punky is doing much better today, but he misses his Grammy.
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This afternoon, we fly back home, but will see my family very soon as they will be coming to visit for a while before and after the baby is born. We can’t wait to see them again– and for them to meet our little boy!
2 Comments
Elizabeth on July 22, 2009 at 10:37 am.
Wow. That would be hard. He may also be processing various ‘leaving and returning’ experiences – he seems to be sensitive to change in routine and there have been lots of these changes recently. I will say a special prayer for him today!
You and your Mother are on my prayer wall (I had to assure my own Mother that I afix the lists to the wall, not write on the wall itself; somehow my Mother still remembers when I wrote on my walls!
) My love to you this day!
Elizabeth on July 22, 2009 at 10:57 am.
Poor Punky !
My prayers for you all.
I am so sorry I could not make it to see you in London, but with the speed at which my gallbladder operation was scheduled and performed, it would not have been feasible.
hugs to you all, especially to Grammy.