// The way I made that post and then, life threw a whole house on me. (Literally and figuratively.)
Literally the next day of posting that life really got thrown upside down with my mom.
(I am very much trauma dumping here. talking about death. this is very heavy)
The last two weeks have been the most difficult, longest, and shortest period of my life I think I will go through in a while. That Sunday, my mom thought she had, had a very bad anxiety attack (kind of normal though it was 3am and more to it), fast forward to later in the morning she was in the hospital and was in there for days before figuring out she'd had two 100% clots near her heart and then a 95% one also near her heart. I was still working 12-hour days every day of the week at this point because that's just my seasonal job.
There was so much talk of what to do because she couldn't just have open heart surgery due to other conditions she had. A stent was put in that Thursday, and she came home the next day.
That woman was so fine. She was literally doing things she shouldn't, and I did scold her over text. Tell me why the next Sunday it just all falls to pieces again? But worse. She was so sick, I quit my job that night after getting home. I sobbed because I didn't want to quit them early and because it's about my only income for the year (it's hard getting jobs around here). I took her for a little checkup at her regular doctor, because she thought maybe she caught something in the hospital, but they said everything was fine.
An incident on the way home happened and I should have just let them take her back then, but she wanted to go home. So, I took her home and nothing got better.
Tuesday the 9th was my hell day.
It was six something in the morning and I can't even say what I woke up to. I called an ambulance to come get her and take her straight to the main hospital because she didn't have enough strength to walk.
I honestly don't even know what next, I was expecting. Maybe that she was sick with something because she couldn't keep anything down, but I don't know. It took me forever to get some information, but I called at the right time, and she picked up. Telling me she just got out of surgery, and she'd call me back in an hour. Surgery? I was dumbfounded and shocked she just told me that.
I called for the next two hours on the hour because she never called me back. A nurse finally called me back to tell me that they were putting a tube down her throat and that I was her power of attorney.
The next call was even worse as the device they had just put in wasn't strong enough for her heart because she was going into heart failure and that they were going to be putting in a bigger one through a different area closer to her heart.
I have a sibling so, I was calling him about all this. (Because even though the decision making was up to me, I still wanted him to help me. It was something we were supposed to share anyway.)
I should have just been there sooner because it took me about 10pm or 11pm to finally go. My brother's wife was going to go sit with her overnight so, I went with her, not knowing just how bad it was until they called my brother and used the word critical.
I didn't know what to expect when I walked in that room, but it wasn't that. No one should ever have to see a parent, sibling, friends, etc, like that. The image has been haunting me every now and then. Basically, they had so many machines on just to keep her stable.
And then me and my sibling had to make the most difficult decision we have ever had to make together. After they explained what it would be like if she was to somehow pull through being resuscitated on top of her weakened heart, it was horrible. We knew she wouldn't have forgiven us.
He couldn't be there because he works hours away, but he tried and, I do kind of wish I had been selfish enough to tell him to come sooner even if it wouldn't have changed much.
I swear, it wasn't even ten minutes after we made the DNR decision that she started to code. The paperwork couldn't even be done in time before they started to confusingly scramble around her and them looking around like what to do before I just had to tell them no.
I'm lucky that my sister-in-law was there, along with my mom's friend, but I didn't know I would be watching my mom pass away that night.
Personally, I had such a complicated relationship with my mom, but she was still my mom and I'm just 27, I'm not supposed to lose my mom this early. I hate my brain because I know she's gone, but I can't help but feel like I'm waiting for her to come home. There is so much that just fell on my shoulders and so much I don't have a clue on. I'm lucky to have a brother that does because I would be way more lost than I am right now.
Like I said this is the most difficult, longest, and shortest period of my life, I feel I've aged five years, as well as it all feeling like it all just happened yesterday. Life is like a blink of the eye, you never know what is going to happen in that millisecond and it can all change just as quick.
Another lucky thing I'm glad to have is my cats (including my mom's heathen now). They've really helped me not feel too alone and pick me up when I'm starting to break again. Their silliness, love, and mischievousness have definitely helped me in this time.