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On the night before Thanksgiving my mother was taken to a local hospital by ambulance for nausea and pain in her chest. The doctors inserted a main line cath into her neck so that they could start her on dialysis as her kidneys were shutting down, and attempted to insert a balloon pump for her heart. That day she had a massive heart attack. They immediately moved her to the DeBaky Heart Center at the Texas Medical Center and as soon as they felt she would survive it, a few days later they performed a triple bypass on her. She was very weak and was in that hospital for over three weeks. Every time they tried to move her out of ICU she would relapse and she would have to go back into critical care. Finally after several weeks of this, we spent Christmas with her in the ICU, they deemed her ready to be moved to a rehab center closer to home. This was a couple of weeks into January, by this time the hospital bills were reaching astronomical levels even with Medicare and insurance. In the meantime, my dad retired, after 40 years. Their insurance runs out at the end of January. Mom was in the rehab center for three days when she started having breathing problems, she was rushed back to the hospital by ambulance. At first they thought it was pneumonia and started treating her for that, they then found that her lungs were filling with fluid and that her heart was in a-fib, at this point she's been in ICU again for a week. They are doing dialysis on her on a daily basis, they surgically inserted a main line catherter, she was on a respirator for several days and then yesterday morning they cut into her throat and put in a trach tube. The doctors say that she has a very good chance at recovery but we have no idea how much longer she will be in the hospital. And when she does finally get home she is going to need skilled nursing care while she rehabilitates. If you could help us in any way we would be so appreciative. I want to give my mother every chance possible to pull through this. We still have the Christmas tree up with the presents under it so that when she comes home, however long that may take, we can celebrate it with her. Please help us do this, we love our parents so much and it's breaking our hearts to see them struggling financially at what should be a hapoy, carefree time of their lives. Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for any help.that you can offer.
