[Larry_OHF]

Z, I have been where you are now, seeing my Mom on the floor, almost unconsious, throwing up everything until I thought she would stop breathing. She is on all sorts of medications for various things, and she had misread some labels one day, mixing two drugs that had near fatal effects on her (and it did not help that one of the tablets she took had been expired for more than a year).
My sister and I ran her to the hospital, and when I checked my mom in, my sister began complaining about being sick. I had a nurse check her out, and discovered she was running a temprature of 104`! So, there I sat, all night...with both my mom and sister in the emergency room. What a night of hell! Of course, things have not got better.
My sister has since been diagnosed with a stomach disease that only older women usually get. It produces too much acid, and therefore, causes ulcers. She tells me that there is no cure for this particular thing, but that if she takes her medication regularly, it keeps the acid level down. My mom is falling apart, having some sort of muscle disease, deteriating cartilige in her neck and spinal cord, a cancerous lump in her throat, and other things that the doctors have not been able to explain yet. This has been going on for about three years. I am not expecting very much good to come from her health. Yet the time that has passed seems to have dulled my senses, or maybe I am aware of the fagility of life, and the hope of a better place, soon to come.

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