My poor sister..

Oh my! What a week. Now I have said that if you are having bad moments during your week or day that you don't say that you are having a bad day, or bad week, you just have bad moments. Welllll, this has been a horrible week. I hate giving negative to the whole week, but wow it was!

My sister Bobbi Jo, who I have mentioned on here a few times, has had a mysterious illness. When I say illness, I mean ILLNESS!!!! She has been so utterly sick it, I couldn't even describe in words on here to completely get you to understand. So as I said in a few blogs back, she's had this sickness of not being able to breath well, couldn't sleep, couldn't go up the stairs cause it took everything out of her, coughing.. that kinda stuff. Well, Sunday night she had so much trouble breathing that she agreed (which has to be bad) to go the Emergency room. Well her oxygen level was so low that they had to put her on an oxygen tube. So that night, Allen, Mom, and Yvonne stayed with her and reported back to me. The next morning I went in to the hospital to check on the patient (because we all know that I am an uncertified nurse), and when I walked in to see her I thought I was going to fall over. Her color was completely gone from her face, I'm talkin' white as a ghost!!! She couldn't move, she couldn't even adjust a pillow, turn her head without getting completely winded. She literally couldn't breath without the oxygen tube, she could barley breath with it!! If she had to get up to go the restroom it took EVERYTHING she had to get up (with someone helping her), and when she got back in bed she would have to sit there and breath hard (like she just ran a marathon), trying to calm her heart from the exertion. It was awful to watch her go through this.

After doing cat scans, and exrays, they found that she had fluid in her lungs, and after doing TONS of blood work they couldn't understand why. They also saw that she had a lump in her breast. They decided to find out what the problem is, they would have to do a biopsy. Tuesday night however she had been coughing so hard that she put a rib out! She was in pain, on her side, AND she couldn't breath! So Wednesday morning she finally gave in to our nagging and gave in to a pain pill for her pain, they also gave her a muscle relaxer. Holy Cow, she was out!! She couldn't hold her poor little eyes open, but for us this was good, because she wasn't aware of her misery. So that afternoon the doctor that was doing her biopsy came in and described to Allen and I (because Bobbi was half out of it lol) what was going to happen with the procedure.The doc told Allen he was welcome to stay for the whole thing, and Allen jumped on the opportunity! Me? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you saw my dust as I ran outta that room!!

 Well of course with how things had been going for her, it only got worse. Even though they have her anesthesia, and she had a pain pill AND muscle relaxer in her system, she felt EVERYTHING!!! Not only did they have to stick the prob sucker in her, he couldn't get in all the way, and kept having to dig around! She said it was AWFUL, she was in so much pain! Right before the procedure she had gotten "sick" to her stomach, and the whole day after the procedure she was sick to her stomach, throwing up. We decided she had a bad reaction to the pain meds.

Well, after that was all done, she was released from the hospital, and told there wasn't much else they could do, until they got the results to the biopsy. Oh man... we had to some how someway get her to the car, then get her to into the house. Luckily she qualified to have the oxygen sent home with her. So with MUCH effort and slowness we got my poor sister to my Mom's house. We all agreed she would be good there, because between, Allen, my Mom, Yvonne, and I we could take care of her. Oh, and yes it took ALL of us to take care of her, because she laterally couldn't move with out help. So, once we got her comfy (sorta) at Mom's, we thought all would be good, and we would just try to keep her as comfortable as possible. Well, her rib was still hurtin' and Mom gave her a different type of pain pill Wednesday night. Thursday she woke up as sick as she could possibly get! She couldn't hold anything down, and once everything in her stomach was gone she still got sick. In the middle of her being sick we had to put her in the car and take her to her doctors appointment. Let me just tell you how bad that was for her!! It took three of us the whole way there to help her, she was just .... miserable.

When she finally got into the appointment with her doctor, he gave her a shot for the nausea, and the headaches she'd been having. From there she was headed back to Mom's and layed back in bed. Fortunately her stomach was better, and she was able to eat, and have a semi-sound sleep.

Thats where we stand now. As of right now, she is sleeping on and off and I am sitting in her room on the floor with my laptop, listening to her oxygen tank, and glancing up at her every once and awhile to see if she is awake and in need of anything. It is a GREAT helpless feeling to see someone you love going through so much misery. Nothing you do will make it go away, you can't even make it better. We are in a waiting game now, to see what comes next in the healing process. I will keep you updated on the progress, and let you know when she is up and feeling better, happier, and breathing on her own! :)