Alcohol self help thread II

Al_Mac

Where are you going hip, north to the land of my fathers?

Every day without is a winner

Been doing the cooking, as I'm not working. Cooked twice with wine this week. Thought to myself, I haven't stopped drinking! But alcohol boils at a low temperature, so only a flavouring

Thanks for the bump GP

Chrismojam

It's been a while and so much has happened!

I was about to start off with the lyrics to a song.....what a difference a day makes.....as on the 24th April, all I was going on about was all the moaning and complaining that work colleagues are doing day in/day out.....then I realised that I last posted on here at 10.59pm on the 25th April....funny the things you do and say when you are in shock eh!

Anyway, as Maria would say, let's start at the very beginning:

Me and OH were due to take my mum to her great grandsons christening on 27th....me and oh decided we would also have a few days extra away, to ourselves (desperately needed, what with working ourselves into the ground:rolleyes: )

Wednesday 25th at 2.30pm, got a call in work off my sis saying mum had been rushed to hospital problems breathing looking very pale/grey; she has chronic obstructive pulmonory disease (brochitis/emphyseama), and also had yet another chest infection....well, this had happened the last time she had a chest infection, and after she was assessed, she was sent home with steroids to clear it up.....but just to be sure, I went straight to the hospital....

And now I've set myself off again....:rolleyes: back in a mo.....

mariauk

:grouphug: Chris

xxxxx

beer2006

Lifes a funny old thing, ups and downs like no-bodys business.

Love to you Chris and your family.
x

Chrismojam

Anyway, it turned out mum was in a VERY bad way.......when I got there she was on 100% oxygen, completely out if it, not responding to anything that was said, to being held, even if I was very close to her face calling her name, not responding to pain (didn't even flinch when blood was being taken or drips put in because she was so dehydrated).....

Eventually she was put on less oxygen (apparently too much pure oxygen is toxic......she was having a reaction to this ....hence not being able to respond at all).....

She did start to respond a little, but she was very confused and disoriented and not making any sense, kept asking if I/hospital were trying to kill her/put her down....(thought the oxygen was gas and the drip was poison:rolleyes: )....kept trying to get up out of bed (whilst attached to an oxygen tank and drips etc):eek:

I was with her until about 9 in the evening when she was moved to an assessment unit....6 hours of mega stress.......I kept bursting in to tears at the drop of a hat.....I was convinced on at least 4 occasions that she was about to die in front of me....(apart from thinking this was going to happen at anytime during my time with her).....

I went home exhausted convinced the next time I saw her would be the last....

Sister and brothers travelled over to be with her.....all of us convinced she was not going to make it, she was that bad.....we were at the hospital at 4 in the morning....she had been moved to the thoracic ward as her condition was life threating...

Chrismojam

She was put on non-invasive ventilation (basically a very powerful machine that makes your lungs work properly.....really pumps them up)....she is used to breathing very shallow from her chest.....poor thing was knackered!

Anyway, by Friday her doc thought she was vastly improved (well she wasn't dead so i'd have to agree with him!)....but she was far from well....and had a long was to go before he would be happy to take her off the machine....

Now here is the crunch......after all the stress that everyone had been under, what was the first thing she wanted when she came around properly? A ciggy:eek: ...in fact her actual words were I'm dying for a ciggy:rolleyes: that, and a whiskey and lemonade, oh and she rather fancied the doctor:D

Anyway, happy in the knowledge that she was on the right track, that my brother would be visiting, and that I was coming down with a heavy cold and throat infection and wouldn't be able to visit her anyway, I carried on with my trip, which was very nice.......apart from the trip home today, which is another post altogether!:p

jayne.doe

(((hugs))) Chris what a dreadful time. Look after yourself....xxxxxx

beer2006

So its been a stressful old time then

Chrismojam

beer2006 wrote: »

So its been a stressful old time then

Not arf!!!! Ooh, I nearly forgot, the journey home!

Train from Cambridge to Liverpool via Nuneaton...travel time 3 hours 25 minutes.....

Getting into Nuneaton (no map in the carriage so we didn't realise we were getting into Nuneaton until we were there).....stuck in the window seats with 6/7 teenage boys in the other surrounding chairs.....numerous other people getting off the train with their cases/bags...teenagers couldn't move until they did.....then other idiots decided just to get on the train with all of their bags etc whilst we were still trying to get to the door with our stuff....got to the door....alarm went....doors closed...tried pressing the open door thing numerous times.....train pulled off:eek:

Stuck on the effing train until Birmingham New St.......with effing people who found it rather amusing that we had missed our stop/connecting train:mad: ....

At which point my head started turning 360 degrees, and a rather satanic voice (with Tourettes) took over:D

Eventually got into Liverpool at 4.10.....I was not a happy bunny:mad:

brodev

The house that I have just bought in Portugal is in Praia da Luz where the little girl has gone missing. When something like this happens I am profoundly sorry for the people concerned and I am grateful for the comparatively small problems that I have. It puts things into perspective. My hopes and prayers are with this poor family.