Skye, I hope your mom has a speedy, uneventful recovery! So glad that it sounds like she's doing as well as can be expected.

Mom drove herself to the ER.

Join my club. It's called "Jesus Christ, Parental Unit, Why Just WHY WHY WHY Would You Do That?" Our meetings have snacks. The snacks are Ativan.

I don't understand. I swear I will call 91 if I think I've had a stroke or heart attack.

She is planning on driving home tomorrow. I don't think that will happen.

Oh and she had the stroke yesterday. I think that is what she said but she wasn't feeling well and thought she had a stroke so she wrote something to treat her handwriting.

She wrote (and I'm paraphrasing) " If I don't wake up tomorrow. I want my kid to k ow I love them . Tell E he is strong and brave. And oh yeah I'm too stubborn to call 911. "

{{{askye}}} {{{askye's mom}}} Also, askye's mom, if you need to go to the ER, don't drive. PLEASE.

{{-t's stomach, and co-workers and teammates}}

Oh man, askye! I hope your mom is OK.

I will say, my grandmother would just not tell anyone for days if she thought she had a stroke because "what are they going to do, anyway??"

Oh, it's not just parental units. "I know what my heart attacks feel like, I knew I had lots of time before it went bad." If he hadn't forgotten to take the medical bracelet off his wrist, I'd have never known.

{{{askye}}} Mom~ma.

Strokes terrify me. But, honestly, if I was home alone and thought I might be having a stroke I don't know what I'd do. When I thought I was going into anaphylactic shock I drove myself to the drug store to buy Benadryl because that seemed like the best idea at the time. I can't imagine me-having-a-stroke would be a whole lot more sensible.

Not to suggest that that's in any way the right way to behave, but I guess I kinda understand.

Good luck, Sheryl!

My mom once waited until evening to call and ask me to take her to the ER because she "didn't want to bother me at work." Fortunately it turned out to be nothing, but I was ready to reserve us adjoining beds in the cardiac unit.

Loved ones why do they do this.

It turns out mom had accidentally blocked my number so that explains not getting through. We got that resolved. Mom's left side seems effected. She told me just now )we are awake for vitals checks) that she feels like she has more movement in her hand and foot. The recliner they brought in doesn't recline as far as it should.

She also may have hurt her knee when she fell feeding the cats. She didn't tell me this last night but she fed the cats before she drove to the hospital because she wasn't sure when she would be home.

Oh and did I mention she had to drive down a mountain road with 33 curves? Because she did . That is the main road to get to town.

I sorry, askye. That all sounds very stressful.

It's stressful and it's not. I mean I've been thinking about some of this for awhile and I am compartmentalizing right now I know. But I acted and felt more flustered at work the other day over a minor issue. And now I'm just calm and trying not to think too far ahead until I know more. instead of over thinking which is my norm.