Discussion: Battlefield 2 / Battlefield 2 - Ranked Vanilla - Orthodox Christmas and Family emergency--Axis AFK - As she was returning from a walk on Saturday near her home in the Siskiyou
As she was returning from a walk on Saturday near her home in the Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon, my mom's femur sudenly snapped like a breadstick. She lay in the snow for two hours as it became dark, calling for help until some neighbors found her--they were great and now she is safe at the hospital.
She goes under for an operation tomorrow to find out what's going on: most likely prognoses: osteoporosis or bone cancer. She beat stage four breast cancer two years ago--a miracle recovery. You don't know my mom--but if you think there's anything good about me, it's probably there because she taught me.
I'm going down to take care of my disabled brother--my dad had to leave on an important business trip tonight--and be there for whatever news the doctors have for her. At best, months of recovery, at worst, a move from the hospital to hospice care.
Depending on what the outcome is, my time at TG may be very limited. I'll give updates when I can, I'll have net access at my bro's house.
For those so inclined, positive thoughts, wishes and prayers are very much appreciated. I know all my brothers at TG got my back if I ever need to talk about it.
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Re: Orthodox Christmas and Family emergency--Axis AFK
Good luck Axis, go take care of business, we will be around when you get back.
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Re: Orthodox Christmas and Family emergency--Axis AFK
My best wishes to all your family.
I have been through this (stage 2) and I know how it is.
If your mom beated stage 4, she has a very strong mentality.
So I believe she will recover soon.
Keep up, our thoughts are on you and your family.
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Spent 3 hours with Mom going over the advanced directive as she waited for surgery--boy is she picky! "I don't want to be tube fed, but you can resuscitate, once! They can sustain life, but only if...and only for x long, and only for these reasons..." on and on like that. We had fun with it, but it was still difficult. She made me executor instead of Dad. Said he mightn't have the nerve to follow her wishes. She was sorry, but if I was willing...? I was willing. I hope my Dad can forgive me if I have to make decisions he can't make. I hope I can forgive me, if it comes to that.
She went through pins, screws, metal bar in her bone etc. well, and is upbeat. Her first day after she was looking bad and feeling worse--she said they gave her the wrong pain meds. They said, no, these are good, you'll like them better. She said get me off of these things, I mean it. They said just wait a bit...then they took her off pain meds and just gave her anti-inflammatories for swelling (her idea). She felt great then, and went wheeling about the hospital in a chair next day. With no pain meds. After a broken femur, lying in shock in the snow 2 hours, and waiting 38 more before having some pretty nasty surgery...did I mention she's pretty tough?
The doctors are "99% sure" the break was cancer-related. She also needed a blood transfusion this morning, and she wasn't real straightforward about why that was. She also hadn't eaten much for 3 weeks leading up to this because her throat and esophagus are swollen and partially paralyzed, and everything tastes awful, particularly sweet things...and she was telling me it was a bad throat infection she got. Maybe I should get Hugh Laurie involved.
It's funny, her strength of conviction is such that very few people, especially me, my Dad and my brother, question her much when she says something is this way, or she wants this not that. A. she's almost always right, and B. resistance is futile. She goes her own way, always has, and it usually works for her--no-one knows how she gets away with it. She just ignores the system, the "common knowledge" and the status quo, trusts in God, prays about it, makes up her mind and goes about doing whatever it is she decides to do. Dad doesn't get this. I get it half the time. I'm not sure how much my brother gets.
She sounds like a religious freak, but she's really not--it's just real for her in a way that it isn't with most people. She acts on it all the time, not just on Sunday, or when she's inspired to do so, or remembers she's "supposed to". She will do this even if it means she must suffer terribly--I can' imagine it's fun using a walker with a broken femur held together with a steel bar, pins, screws, and whatnot--without painkillers or a cast...
She won't be tube-fed, but she can barely chew or swallow. She almost said no to the transfusion. Mom, I hope you know what you're doing, and I hope I can truly help in the way you need, when it comes time.
Heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all those who have posted, PM'd and + repped back about this with their prayers and well-wishes. God bless you all, and those who thought it and didn't post too. Life has been very sweet and good for a while now, and I was due for a bit of struggle. I'm OK with that.
Um, I'm a little broke now after this trip, so...my SM might lapse a bit. We'll see!
Living proof that "Teamplay ensmartens the idiotest of us!"
"Let us be neither hasty nor tardy, and let us always be ready to make a new start. If you fall, rise up. If you fall again, rise up again." St. Peter of Damascus, ~1196 AD
Re: Orthodox Christmas and Family emergency--Axis AFK
You're mother sounds like an amazing woman, the kind of person that is rarely seen walking this Earth. It sounds like a difficult road ahead, but I'm sure she'll pull through. Good luck and take your time, being with your family at a time like this is one of the most important things you can do and we'll still be here when you're ready to come back .
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Best of luck with your family. It is always hard, but it sounds as if you and your mom are very strong and will make it through this as well as you can.
I feel for you, and hope that everything turns out for the best.
I don't know you that well, but having played a few times with and against you.....you seem like a good person. It seeems the worst things happen to the good people, but I think God won't allow us to have anything we can't handle. That just means you're a much stronger person than alot of us.
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