ICU 3

Dearest blog,

Today Adam and I went to see my mother in the ICU. Room 3. She looked a lot better than she did a few days ago. She was still pretty weak but she's hanging in there.

See, my mom had gastric bypass surgery about 10 years ago which pretty much means they cut pieces of her stomach and intestines so that she ate less and didn't really gain weight. Of course when she had that surgery she was told she'd have no choice but to take vitamins for the rest of her life because her body won't absorb most of them from the food she eats. My mom stopped taking her vitamins about a year ago.

Today we find out that my mom only had 1.7 pints of blood in her entire body and the doctors were wondering HOW she was even walking. Or living for that matter. Come to find out that my mom has pneumonia in her left lung, gall stones, and the walls of her gall bladder are really thick that they want to take it out of her but can't because of the condition she's in. They are going to do a  few more tests on her and see if there's anything wrong with her liver and/or kidneys.

As of right now, she's doing slightly better beings she has blood in her body. But she is a little aggravated on the fact that she can ONLY have liquids. No food.