Worry

Yesterday the place where Mom lives called to say that she has a bladder infection again and they've started her on medication for it. Mom is often up during the night so maybe that's why just now when I went to see her she had crawled into bed and wouldn't get up or talk much. I happened to get there right when a Mother's day tea party was starting but between 3 of us trying we couldn't get her to get out of bed for it and she's not usually one to miss activities unless she's sick. I didn't get quite as gruff a "get lost" as the staff did.

But who knows in an hour or two she could be up and about again. I asked her if she was in pain and she said yes and when I asked what hurt she said "all over." And it's a wet damp cold day so that could be it too.

I'm just really hoping this isn't a precursor to the problem with her electrolytes that landed her in the hospital 3 times in the last year.

I let the nurses know about what she said about the pain and they thanked me and told me that Mom has a blood test every week to check her electrolytes, and the last test was just today so that's good so we can stay on top of the sodium level in her blood and hopefully unlike last year we can keep her out of the hospital this Mother's Day!