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VolNExile said:
So it wasn’t a thyroid thing with my mom; it was a TIA (mini-stroke.) She’s very uncoordinated today and having speech difficulties…
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still thinking of you and your mother, and glad to hear that she was back home so quickly. First time to be active on VN since your unitial post.

Prayers to continue, Was with Dad and MIL years ago when they dealt with TIAs. MIL passed shortly after turning 99
 
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Dad had another wonderful PET scan and cancer remains in remission. Feeling slightly better but oncologist wants him to go to Vanderbilt because they are 1 of 3 hospitals in the country studying "long covid" and he thinks he has it. His spirits were great due to the scan results. I can't say enough how much we appreciate the thoughts and prayers. Thank you all so very much🙏🏻
 
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Vol since 77 said:
Dad had another wonderful PET scan and cancer remains in remission. Feeling slightly better but oncologist wants him to go to Vanderbilt because they are 1 of 3 hospitals in the country studying "long covid" and he thinks he has it. His spirits were great due to the scan results. I can't say enough how much we appreciate the thoughts and prayers. Thank you all so very much🙏🏻
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Awesome news!! Continued prayers!
 
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Vol since 77 said:
Dad had another wonderful PET scan and cancer remains in remission. Feeling slightly better but oncologist wants him to go to Vanderbilt because they are 1 of 3 hospitals in the country studying "long covid" and he thinks he has it. His spirits were great due to the scan results. I can't say enough how much we appreciate the thoughts and prayers. Thank you all so very much🙏🏻
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Awesome news!
 
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vollygirl said:
Bless his heart. That's gotta be so scary for y'all.
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thanks. he's been very brave -- has battled too many sinus/ear infections that have forced him to hospital and is only one in family to have contracted COVID. AIW episodes were preceded by week where temp kept hopping to 100-plus.

Has been in very good spirits since and hasnt run a temp since late january but hallucinations periodically affect him at night
next test will be MRI
 
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ArdentVol said:
thanks. he's been very brave -- has battled too many sinus/ear infections that have forced him to hospital and is only one in family to have contracted COVID. AIW episodes were preceded by week where temp kept hopping to 100-plus.

Has been in very good spirits since and hasnt rub a temp since late january but hallucinations periodically affect him at night
next test will be MRI
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Didn't he have the babysitter/ nanny who refused to get vaccinated, caught COVID, and brought it to the family? -- I truly can't remember all the horror stories from those who tried to keep on keepin' on through 2020 and beyond, so I apologize if this was not his story.

And that's very interesting that all the AIW episodes were preceded by fevers. Makes you wonder about triggers from encephalopathy.

👍🏻 and 🙏🏻 for all y’all dealing with this, especially the little guy. 💕
 
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Kind of no idea where to put this, because it's sort of glad, a lot of sad, and definitely not mad:

My mom is now in hospice care status. There isn't a specific expectation that she will die in the next six months (the usual definition of qualification for hospice), but she has met several other criteria to earn the right to be Left Alone in peace. She will remain in her current room in her current assisted living facility, surrounded by her own furnishings and pictures and plants, now followed by hospice care physicians and nurses who will ensure that she is comfortable and happy. She will never again be put in an ambulance and taken to the ER, put in a room filled with endlessly beeping monitors and people coming in and out and in and out, doing everything useless except turn off the beeping monitors (which would be useful), never again have to be admitted to the hospital, wearing a hospital gown and nothing else, in unfamiliar settings, and given drugs and enduring endless interruptions to have her temperature checked, delirious and hallucinating, with a condition that can't be fixed, so why is she even here?? She will be allowed to live out her remaining days in familiar surroundings, cared for by kind people who understand and accept and support how life goes towards the end, and with minimal disruptions.

And when things do start to wind down, which they will, as we are all living creatures who all eventually die, she will have plenty of comfort care - oxygen and morphine if necessary and skin lotion and fever reducers and music and company as she completes her journey in this life.
 
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VolNExile said:
Kind of no idea where to put this, because it's sort of glad, a lot of sad, and definitely not mad:

My mom is now in hospice care status. There isn't a specific expectation that she will die in the next six months (the usual definition of qualification for hospice), but she has met several other criteria to earn the right to be Left Alone in peace. She will remain in her current room in her current assisted living facility, surrounded by her own furnishings and pictures and plants, now followed by hospice care physicians and nurses who will ensure that she is comfortable and happy. She will never again be put in an ambulance and taken to the ER, put in a room filled with endlessly beeping monitors and people coming in and out and in and out, doing everything useless except turn off the beeping monitors (which would be useful), never again have to be admitted to the hospital, wearing a hospital gown and nothing else, in unfamiliar settings, and given drugs and enduring endless interruptions to have her temperature checked, delirious and hallucinating, with a condition that can't be fixed, so why is she even here?? She will be allowed to live out her remaining days in familiar surroundings, cared for by kind people who understand and accept and support how life goes towards the end, and with minimal disruptions.

And when things do start to wind down, which they will, as we are all living creatures who all eventually die, she will have plenty of comfort care - oxygen and morphine if necessary and skin lotion and fever reducers and music and company as she completes her journey in this life.
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Sorry, Exie. I know it's inevitable for us all.
Praying all her remaining days are peaceful and painless.
 
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