Monday, October 26th

Mom, Grandma, Norma Schmucker. From now on I'll use Mom since that is what I call her.

She has a bad week this week. Breathing has been very difficult and she didn't get up much. Last monday her doctor called and said that she was anemic. He wanted her to go into the office on tuesday so he could make arrangements for her to go to the hospital for a blood transfusion. She gets very worn out when she has to travel anywhere so she didn't go. She did get a blessing on monday and Dad said it helped her relax.

Last night she was physically no better. She has been sleeping more then she has been awake. Everything she does has been labored. Dad said that they were trying to decide where she would be sleeping . . . home or the hospital. She slept home last night but this morning they got transport for her. She started in emergency then was moved into a room. They did some tests and then she was moved into ICU. Dad has said she had a heart attack . . . I spoke with the nurse and she didn't know anything about that. It turns out that her heart is racing. They got it to slow down a bit. The problem is when they give her breathing treatments, it speeds up again. She has been caughing up a lot of junk. For those that do not know, mom has had emphesemia since she was 63 . . . for 17 years.

They nurse said that she is trying to drink a bit of juice. She is on a liquid diet at the moment. She is more relaxed. Her blood counts are low (since she wasn't treated for anemia as of yet.) The Dr. should be there in an hour or so and I'll call him tomorrow to see what he can tell me.

I explained to the nurse that Mom has a big family and we are spread out across the country. I requested that if the time came that we needed to go that she call me. . . she said she would.

In the meantime, I called Rick. He is on his way to visit. Visiting is bad where she is. Dad said they can visit 6 times a day for 15 minutes only. Hopefully, Rick will be able to. He said he would call me afterwards. . . I'll post again if he has anything different to say.

Prayers are good!