Best wishes for your mom and your husband. That is a shame about your mom.
I survived a stroke suffered during heart surgery and contracted MRSA at the same time. The MRSA resulted in 3 more surgeries to my chest. Instead of the zipper scar, I have a trench. I spent 2 entire near death months in the hospital and another 4 with at home nursing. The hospital bill alone was over a 1 million bucks. It took me over a year to recover, but I now have 95% of what I had before the stroke, I seldom need a wheelchair and I have retained my very opinionated and strong attitude. ;>)
I continue to make trips back to hospitals for various issues and I see at least one of my doctors about every 3 weeks.
I have another darn MRA scheduled for next week. They want to look at my brain this time for a tumor attached to the pituitary gland.... maybe my kids are right and it’s missing. ;>)
Had I not had bulletproof insurance from 4 separate sources, I would likely be dead or living in a tent.
I have already instructed my doctors that if I need anymore serious and lengthy medical attention, I want to be referred to the Mayo in AZ.
However.... other than God, there remains one primary reason that I have made it this far and that is my bride of over 38 years. Without her, I would have thrown in the towel. She was with me, 3 hours from our home, every single day throughout all of this hell, and still is.
The doctors helped, as well as the nurses and all the other medical folks, but it is our ladies that bring us back from the brink.
Good luck...
Bless be to your wife. It is so difficult to see your husband on a feeding tube suffering. I was only 20 mins away and honesty I couldn’t take it. Most call it cold, I called it love.
He survived, but it changed us both. The nursing home was the worse. Then he woke up! He was normal. He was everything I remembered. We will never be the same, yet we
share all that happened. I thank the Mayo for that, and I thank God. We are 62 and 56. We have a long life to live with out the Mayo. Sadly, I’ll never get the benefits,nor will others that thought they would.
MRSA is terrible! My aunt went through it!!! Tell your wife I am truly jealous that she could sit with you and give the support. I feel really guilty I couldn’t do it.
Luckily, the doctors at the mayo said he didn’t know if I was there or not. But I knew.