Good Thoughts Needed
Barb
blpurdom at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 25 01:06:38 UTC 2001
My dear mother-in-law is in the hospital until Monday (hopefully not
longer). She had a fainting spell and then a small seizure (she is
71). All sorts of tests have been done on her heart and she's had a
CAT scan and EEG. Tomorrow she's getting an MRI done. The doctor
said there is scarring on her brain from previous seizures. We were
afraid that she might have had a stroke or heart attack, but that
does not seem to be the case. I'm going to call friends from church
to see whether our kids can go to someone else's house after the
service tomorrow so we can both go visit her in the hospital; so far
only my husband has been able to go since they won't let kids under
14 visit. He's an only child and very badly affected by this; he
and his mother are very close, and she and I are very good friends
as well.
What really got me was that my husband asked me whether I still
had "that stuff she gave you." What he meant was this: A few years
ago my mother-in-law gave me detailed written instructions about
what should eventually occur at her memorial service. She said she
knew that I would keep my head about me since my husband and father-
in-law would very likely not. (She's probably right about that.)
Still, I'm very shaky now at the thought of possibly actually having
to get that out...I can't bear the thought. I am the luckiest woman
in the world when it comes to my mother-in-law, and this is
affecting me more than I can say to my husband, because I know he is
already very, very distressed and anxious also for how his father is
coping.
Thanks for letting me rant, and please keep us all in your thoughts.
--Barb
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