Mom was in a car accident. Dad said she was acting strangely the last couple of days, couldn’t stand up straight and was slurring speech. He things she had a stroke. He told her to go to the doctor and not to go into work today. She thought she was fine. She hit a parked car not far from her house and the police said the car is undriveable. They called an ambulance for her bc she was incoherent and unsteady on her feet. Dad’s heading over to the hospital now and I’m going to go shortly. We both agree that at least now she’ll get a diagnosis because she has been refusing to see any doctors about her memory.
Mom’s been ignoring a lot of stuff for a long time. She’s stable and physically ok but is acting very confused and doesn’t believe she’s ever been confused. Blood shows some kind of heart event happened. CT scan shows a scar from an old stroke (several years ago she told me about a few days where she couldn’t write her name and joked about it maybe being a small stroke but she never went to the doctor about it). They’re ordering an MRI to see current blood supply to the brain. She’ll be here for 2-3 days. She continues to deny every observation my dad makes about her state of mind. She can’t have any food until tomorrow after the doctor does a swallow test to see what is safe for her to eat. She was having trouble with water earlier.
Dad and I are heading home. She’s settled into a nice private room and Jeremy is staying over tonight. Luckily she’s on a floor where we don’t have to leave. So I’ll be back tomorrow morning for probably idk all day. She doesn’t remember being in a car accident or having a CT scan. Before I left she said something like “We’re going to miss dinner” and I laughed and said yeah. I told her the doctor had to wait to let her eat until they did more tests and she rolled her eyes. I asked if she knew why she was in the hospital and she said no. So I told her they were doing some tests on her heart and some tests about how her brain is talking to other parts of her body and she seemed to accept that.
Generally, right now, I feel in a place of acceptance. I asked dad how he’s doing and he said he’s glad that she is finally getting these tests done. We both have been waiting for the other shoe to drop for a while.
