October 2, 2009

Krista said that Mom was a little restless in the night, but not as much as before.  This morning while I was sleeping, Krista put a bow on Mom's head and Mom wanted her to put it back on when I came out.  She still has her sense of humor!

Joyce came early for communion, followed by Lisa.  BP 102/54 Pulse 65  Lisa said she thought Mom was about the same as yesterday.  Next Sherry gave her a bath and we changed her bedding.  She's sleeping right now off and on.  She's became very disoriented as the day went on.

Aunt Ruth Ann brought us a warm loaf of homemade bread and pumpkin brownies that made a great afternoon snack. 

I'm leaving Mom's to go to Max's football game tonight.  As I'm at home getting ready, Kathy called from Mom's and puts her on the phone.  In her very quiet, slow, weak voice, she tells me that a lady from Joel Osteen's Lakeland Church just called her.  She said that the lady, she thought her name to be Mary, said, "Marilyn, I understand you have a mass."  Mom said, yes I have a malignant mass. She asked Mom to put her hand over her mass, and Mom laid her hand over her liver.  Mom said she thought that she had masses all over but that her liver was probably the biggest so she laid her hand over that.   Mary spoke to the liver in prayer, demanding that it leave her body, and leave NOW, and all of the little fingers that grew from it as well.  Mom said she spoke angrily to it.  Mary followed with prayers and told Mom that prayer is powerful and has often cured people of their illnesses.  Mom said she was so shook up just by the phone call that it was difficult to recall everything she said.  She just keeps saying how wonderful the it was that she called.  She said she wishes that she cold have recorded it to replay it, and asked me if I could ask them for a recording of it.  She cried, as I did, when she told me.  It was such a moving and powerful moment.

I continued to get ready to go to Max's football game.  Tina is coming tonight, and will be here to help Krista while I'm gone, and of course, Grandma is always thrilled to see Tina!

On our way to the ballgame which was 85 miles from home, Krista called me and was alarmed at her BP.  It was 84/49.  She continued to take it off and on and it ranged from 84/59 - 94/56 with her pulse around 45-50.  She was making no sense as we talked and was as white as her sheets.  I went on to the ballgame, but I left at half time and Mike got a ride home with Pat.  Thanks Pat! 

On the way home, I was talking to Tina, who was about 10 miles behind me, as she came from Chicago.  She asked me to tell her the truth about Grandma.  I told her since she was this close to Grandma's I'd tell her that she wasn't good at all.  She was so upset and she asked me why I had lied on my blog today that she was doing okay.  I told her that she had taken a turn for the worse just since I had written this morning.  I felt so terrible that she thought I hadn't been truthful, but yet, I could see her point because it shocked us, too, that she got so much worse so fast.  It was a long drive home, and somehow, Tina beat me to Grandma's.

When I got home, I told her that I saw her doctor with his girlfriend at the game.  She told me that I should have told him that he is supposed to wait on her!  She has such a crush on him!  It's cute.

We weren't certain that Mom would make it through the night.  David came to see Grandma and was shocked at how much worse she looked just from Monday.  Tina wanted to stay in the room with Grandma tonight and I know she didn't get much sleep.