Knock Knock!

Um... Lord?

I know you say you won't give us more than we can handle, but I'm feeling a little overwhelmed here! You know that we are barely past Totsie's surgery, and all the cancer, and Troy's death... and already something else? *selfish statement ahead* I'm tired Lord! Exhausted! and so is my family... I'm begging you - please give us a break.

So, my mom woke up yesterday morning, apparently very disoriented, dizzy, out of it.... She somehow managed to call my grandmother, who I think called my aunt, who went straight to mom's. At some point, EMS and the cops were called out, because the house was locked, and mom couldn't get to the door to unlock it. Aunt Tammy ended up being able to jimmy the lock on her storm door, and got in to her.

EMS arrived, and mom had a very low pulse, and a blood pressure so low that the EMTs couldn't get a reading with the BP cuff. They took her to the ER at St. Elizabeth where they found that her hemoglobin levels (blood levels) were at 5.5. Um. Normal is between 12 and 18. Doctors normally do blood tranfusions when levels get to 8. Turns out she has Aspirin Toxicity. She took too many aspirins trying to ward off a toothache. (there's more to this story i don't care to explain, so if it seems incomplete, well...it is.)

She was going to be admitted to ICU last night, but as of 11:15ish when Aunt T called me, they were still waiting. They are going to do a scope this morning, to see if they can find where the bleeding is coming from, so they can stop it. (I just called the ICU, and she's downstairs for testing, so i wasn't able to get any information).

I really really need to be over there - but I have a few things standing in my way -

- I'm in the middle of a HUGE project, and my boss, who is the one who's been working with me on this - is on vacation. (the whole copy machine install...)
- I've made several trips back to East Texas this past month for hospitals, and doctors, and funeral, so I've already missed quite a bit of work.
- My car's timing belt still hasn't been changed, and it's 13,000 miles overdue. The transmission fluid is low, and i just don't trust it to take it that far by myself.
- My driver's license expired last month, so I can't even rent a car.

I also just got a call from John, and he's not able to take off to come with me, so it looks as if I'll be travelling alone. John's cousin has offered to trade cars with me for the weekend, so thank goodness for him! Thanks B!

ok - i must cut this short so that I can tie up my loose ends here at work and get on the road this afternoon.

Did i mention that I have a very hard time staying awake lately? Please be in prayer for safe, awake travels.