Like most people who have young children with early bedtimes, and who are really anal about sticking to those early bedtimes, and have no one to babysit for free on New Year's Eve anyway...we had no plans to go out for NYE. The most I was hoping for was an uneventful evening followed by an early-ish night, to make up for waking up at 4am this morning and not being able to get back to sleep again.
But here I am, at 12.07am, having just kissed the boy. "How did you do it?" I hear you ask. Well...I ended up spending the whole evening in the hospital with my mum because she was suffering from really bad vertigo. That in itself doesn't sound bad enough to warrant emergency medical attention, but when you add type 2 diabetes, a recent change in medication and a steadfast refusal to follow a low-sugar diet - her light-headedness, dizziness and vomiting could have been a symptom of something really serious.
The silly woman didn't even bother to tell me that something was wrong, until I called her at 6pm.
The worst part for me was probably holding the almost-big-enough plastic cup under mum's chin as she threw up strange solids that didn't look anything like diced carrots. It almost made me bring up home made banana cake I'd chomped through an hour earlier. The next worst part was accepting a free surplus patient dinner (very nice of the staff, thank you very much) and realising that hospital food is every bit as bad as everyone says it is.
The best parts were being told that her affliction is not life-threatening - just scary, and that she could stay there overnight for observation (and someone else taking her to the toilet in the wee hours - oops, a pun!).
Happy New Year!
7 comments:
What a worry for you Violet - I hope she gets better very soon!
Best wishes for 2010 to you and your family.
yeah she's fine now thanks.
Happy New Year, Violet! I hope 2010 is a good year for you.
I hope this does not set the tone for 2010.
Amanda: I sure do.
Nigel: I don't want to believe in good luck/bad luck that way. My mother does, and that's why it took her all afternoon to accept that something was wrong - she didn't want to end up in hospital over New Year.
Glad to read that your mom is better. Are you sure she didn't drink too much champagne?! Just kidding. My six year old son and myself were the only ones awake at midnight on NYE. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you too, Heidi!
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