My brother is having his heart transplant!
I just wanted to let you all know my brother is having his heart transplant surgery tonight!! The doctors called at noon saying they thought they had a match for him. We all went to the hospital. At 3:30 p.m. they said it was a match and were flying the heart to him. His transplant surgery is tonight. The doctors were very positive and thought it would be successful! We brought his kids home with ours. I’ll go back to the hospital later tonight. Please pray for my brother and his family.
I think a good topic is how do you support your family (kids, parents, siblings) in medical crisis. My friend emailed me today that her mother had passed away in hospice. I know she will miss her mother terribly but being a caregiver is very stressful!
Have you had parents, siblings, children in medical crisis? How has your family handled the pressured and shared the responsibility?
I’ll keep you guys posted on my brother! We may not having a topic for Friday depending on how things go.
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Valstake
June 25th, 2009
7:43 pm
Ours was a small family and parents, sister, brother, I all lived in different states. My husband was in a coma (he later died) and no one from my family came until the last day of funeral home visitation. My father died at home (hospice care) but work prevented my sister coming down until the funeral. My brother and I were with mother when his end came. My mother had surgery and was able to talk to me when I came to visit her in the hospital afterward, but she later died. Couldn’t keep and out-of-town vigil, so came back to Atlanta. Guess you could say we don’t give a great deal of moral support to other family members who are ill.
Becky
June 26th, 2009
8:39 am
Valstake, sorry that you had to go through that without a lot of support..My Mother was in the hospital for a month before she passed and my job was great for letting me off..
DB
June 26th, 2009
6:05 pm
Valstake, you do what you can, and don’t beat yourself up for what you can’t.