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What A Night
04/28/2008 22:51:15 / other
Good Evening Artistes,
Last night, while I was changing his trache bandages, my husband fainted and fell to the floor. Many of you know that I have been his caregiver since 2004, and that due to severe radiation for mouth cancer, he lost his jaw, doesn't speak, or eat, except by stomach tube, and his condition will not improve.
I had forgotton that he had had a bleed-out in the ICU, and Sloan wheeled him across to Cornell where an expert cardiologist removed half of his carotid artery, and stopped the bleeding.
He told me last night he is frequently dizzzy in his room as he moves from his computer to hospital bed. He also said they told him these fainting spells are normal.
I called to get the name of the surgeon at Cornell to get some details about these "spells" I was never told about. At the time of the operation, I was in a wheelchair with a fractured pelvis, so I could have missed the side effects talk. Unsuccesful at finding the Doctor's name today, I'll follow up tomorrow.
How could this happen without my knowledge? Now I don't feel comfortable leaving him alone at all, and not sure he should drive.
No sleep last night, worrying if this was the next step. Loss of blood flow to the brain causes dizziness, fainting, dementia, stroke, all that good stuff.
Today, I was so tired I couldn't see straight, so I sat in my studio and worked. I finished one picture, and began another, an amusing one that I like a lot.
I have to take better care of myself, or there will be no one left to take care.
Live in the light,
Lisabeth
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