When I left last Sunday from Haaksbergen to Amsterdam, I knew my mother was not feeling well. She got anti-biotics and for some reason her body acted reacted very bad on that. But for antibiotics you always need to take the complete cure.
So when in the train, I called my mother to hear how things were going, she already told me that it all got worse. That already gave me a bad feeling. And it made my arrival in Amsterdam harder this time, as I was feeling I should be back in Haaksbergen.
Today at work, I suddenly got a call from the home where my mothers stays to tell me that mother was taken to the hospital because they were very affraid that she was suffering for “bloed vergiftiging” (sorry, no English translation for that at the moment) and that they didn’t want to take a risk because that be lethal…
The told me that my brother already talked with the doctor and that he would have all the information…
So I called my brother and he was completely surprised by my call, because he wasn’t even aware that our mother was taken to the hospital.
So he made some calls and he found out that my mother was taken to the hospital because they didn’t want to take any risk for this “bloed vergiftiging”. My brother called the hospital and there he heard that my mother was not out of all the examinations yet. He would be called when all the information was there.
Back on my room I prepared for a quick travel back to Haaksbergen. Just waiting for the call with the news!
Begin of the evening my brother called. Good news… it was not “Bloed vergiftiging”, but it seemed that just anti-biotics didn’t go along with the other medicines my mother was taken. At the hospital they will replace the antibiotics by something that my mother can handle. She has to stay some days in the hospital to recover some of her strength.
Tomorrow I will ask my team leader if I can take of Wednesday afternoon, so I can travel back to Haaksbergen and work Thursday and Friday from home. That way I can visit my mother in the evenings.
So for now, end good, all good…. but oh, I feel like 10 years older!
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This is one of the things why I love you so much… The way you care for your mother is something many people could take an example of.
And of course I will be there to support you!
And are do you have now some additional gray hairs? Good to hear that everything is ok with your mother now.
What a story. A lot of stress due to miscommunication. Sounds all to familiarly to me.
Hope you’re mother recovers fast. U 2 offcourse.
Thank you, Marion. You have no idea how much your words mean to me.
@Dave: More gray hairs then I already have? Is that possible?
@Patrick: I think it is partly miscommunication, but also the high work pressure is here a course of this kind of things.
Update:
I just have spoken with my mother on the phone. Although she is still very sick, she is already feeling much better as she did. She has now a new kind of antibiotics where her body reacts well on and that is good news.
If things keep going as they are going now there is a change that she may leave the hospital by Friday and return to the home where she stayed.