Mrs
Jo-Anne Meadows
P O Box 253
Warners Bay
NSW 2282
Thursday
26th July 2018
Dear..................
Hello
my friend, hope life is treating you good, I have had a rough week
but things are looking up at the moment. School has gone back this
week and both Blain and Leo seemed happy to go back to school. It is
a warm day if you are in the sun but it is pretty cold inside my
house.
Last
Monday the 16th in the afternoon around 3pm my sister
Sandra rang to let me know that she had to ring the ambos for mum as
she was suffering delirium again. I then get another call from her at
4pm while I was in the bath, when I noticed it was Sandra I rang her
back and she answered but didn't speak, I could hear her talking to
someone about resuscitating mum. It was upsetting to hear and Sandy
hung up without speaking to me and she rang back a couple of minutes
later and all she said was you need to come here now.
I
rang Natasha in a state as I had no car and needed someone to drive
me to the hospital, as I was crying and a blubbering mess she had no
idea what was wrong all she knew was her mummy needed her. She came
straight over and drove me to the hospital and I rang both Kathy-Lee
and Jessica as well and of course Tim each call I was a blubbering
mess.
When
I arrived at the hospital they were getting ready to put mum on a
ventilator aka life support they had no idea what was wrong with her
and still have no idea what was wrong with her. I stayed at the
hospital till around 9pm and only left because I was finding it
difficult to stay awake and function. The social worker at the
hospital was surprised to see 13 people in the waiting room not just
that there was so many of us there and that we all seemed to like
each other, which we do.
At
around 1am she was transferred to a different hospital as the John
Hunter Hospital didn't have an ICU bed available. She was on a
ventilator till Wednesday morning and the first thing she asked the
doctor after they removed the ventilator was when could she go home.
The
ICU doctor was amazed to see 10 people in the waiting room on Tuesday
morning when he came to explain what was going on with mum and most
of the staff were surprised that every day mum had so many visitors.
Her kidneys had stopped working and her heart-rate was only 25 beats
per minute and her blood pressure was so low it was non-existent that
is how sick she was.
On
Wednesday afternoon mum was moved to a ward and was starting to get
around on her own, she was discharged yesterday and is glad to be
home, in the end the doctors thought she may have over dosed on some
of her medication. Although they really don't know what caused all
her problems but what was most important is that she has gotten
better.
Then
on Saturday morning Sandra rings to tell me she had to ring the ambos
for dad as he wasn't able to get out of bed and was unable to breath
when he tried to get up to go to the toilet. So he gets taken to the
John Hunter Hospital and for the second time in a week Sandra had
give permission to resuscitate a parent.
Dad
was in hospital Saturday & Sunday and was discharged on Monday as
well so now both my parents are home and continuing to improve,
although they both think dad was discharged too early as he still
isn't good.
When
my mum was in hospital Leo was concerned about how my dad was coping
when I told both dad and mum about Leo's concern they were both
touched. Leo is a very loving and caring boy.
I
didn't attend my sister's 50th
because on the day I was sick as and in fact spent most of the day in
bed and I was glad that Tim was home and able to take care of Leo.
Speaking
of Leo reminds me his mum has sold her car, she decided to get rid of
it for two reasons, one she is trying to raise money for dental work
and two her car had an oil leak that she couldn't afford to repair.
She was up front with the people she sold it to about the oil leak
and was lucky it sold really fast in was bought by the first people
to look at it.
Jessica
wouldn't drive her car very often with it often sitting in her
driveway for a week or two without moving at a time, as during the
working week she only goes to and from work, and couldn't be bothered
going out anywhere.
So
she will either catch a bus, walk or borrow my car which is why she
had my car last Monday when mum was taken to hospital. In fact this
morning I am sitting watching telly when Jessica walks in she walked
her from her place just for the exercise and I drove her home.
Natasha
is in talks with a woman about a housing swap, the woman seems to be
interested, so fingers crossed it works out. I don't know where this
woman lives but Natasha has told me it is within walking distance of
my house this will make her happy as she wants to live closer to me.
Last
week Tim sent off our visa applications for our China trip but of
course he stuffed it up he didn't send a page and of course we had to
then email the page with our names on it to them why he didn't send
the page is beyond me when he told me the itinerary didn't have our
names on it I said it did it the are one the first page and he kept
looking at the second page not the first page and he even rang the
travel agent to complain and was told our names are on the first
page, so I was right and he was being thick.
I
mentioned to Sandy that while we are in China I will be worried about
Leo, how is he going to get to and from school each day, Jessica is
going to be relying on Natasha and I just hope she doesn't let
Jessica down.
Well
Sandy says it isn't my problem and it is up to Jessica to sort it out
and that she should change her shift at work, Jessica drives special
needs children to and from school so I have no idea what Sandra
thinks she does but there is no shift to change.
Yesterday
afternoon while at the school Sandra was telling me our brother's car
was found at Warners Bay not far from where I live burnt out, turns
out it was taken from out the front of my parents place where it was
my brother left it there when he took their car he was having trouble
starting his car in the cold weather at 5.30am.
The
first anyone knew about his car being stolen was when the cops rang
Dave my parents didn't even know it was missing but they haven't been
outside since they came home from hospital. Thankfully it is insured
but still it is upsetting there is the loss of the stuff that was in
the car.
On
the 24th my niece Kelli gave birth to her daughter who has
been named Freya Margaret she was 8 pound 9onces, she is Blain's
little sister but Blain doesn't seem very excited about having a new
sister. Blain met his new sister on Friday afternoon but he didn't
seem that excited about it, in fact Leo was more excited about
meeting Freya and wanted lots of cuddles and photos taken with her.
With
the birth of Freya my parents now have 14 great-grandchildren, my
sister Sue now has 7 grandchildren. Our family has been growing
pretty much every year for the last few years.
Jonathon
has asked Kelli to marry him, so they are now engaged, I don't know
what Blain thinks about that, my sister Sue (Kelli's mum) said she
isn't that happy about it as she doesn't like Jonathon much but she
knows that Kelli is happy and she is happy that her daughter is
happy.
Well
that's all from me for this letter, until next time take care and
write when you can.
Jo-Anne
