Maggie Green
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I haven't ever really discussed this on here but my mom isn't well.
Last January, she had a massive heart attack. It happened out of the blue. The doctors performed a quad bypass and she coded on the table, twice. They came out and said to expect that she wouldn't survive the surgery and to call the family. I was in Vegas at the time shooting and I had to take three separate flights to get home, there was bad weather and flights kept getting cancelled. I didn't know if I would see her alive. But she pulled through and when I went back to see her, her chest was still open (covered by blue cellophane looking stuff but I could see in there) and she was on life support. I told her to be strong and to fight. The doctors didn't expect her to survive the night but low and behold, she did. They were shocked! The heart attack had damaged the left side of her heart so badly that it could no longer function on it's own so she got an LVAD....yes, the same thing from Grey's Anatomy where they cut Denny's wires : )
Long story short, my mom was given a 9% chance of survival. She also suffered a stroke when she coded. She beat all of those odds and somehow was barely affected by the stroke, a tad bit of vision loss and a little short term memory loss but that's it. She has been living with her LVAD for over a year...basically it's pump that does the work for her heart since it can't beat on it's own. It's portable life support. It has a controller and a battery pack and she wears the batteries in a fanny pack type thing. She can't drive and can't be left alone for long periods of time so it's been a lot of work for my family and big adjustments have had to be made.
She needs a heart transplant. She has passed all of the tests, even at 66 the rest of her is healthy enough. She has been in and out of the hospital and had 5 major surgeries on the past 13 months.
She got a call from the doctors today and they wanted her to be admitted for some tests, something isn't looking right. I'm so worried that she needs another open heart surgery and if so, this will delay the possibility of the heart transplant even further. Plus, there's only so much open heart surgery that one can take. She should be getting tests done tomorrow and then we will know what the next step is.
On top of all of this, I am dealing with major family drama. It's been a really rough start to 2013.
If you could spare some positive vibes, prayers and whatever else you do for my family and I, that would mean quite a bit to me. XOXOXO
Last January, she had a massive heart attack. It happened out of the blue. The doctors performed a quad bypass and she coded on the table, twice. They came out and said to expect that she wouldn't survive the surgery and to call the family. I was in Vegas at the time shooting and I had to take three separate flights to get home, there was bad weather and flights kept getting cancelled. I didn't know if I would see her alive. But she pulled through and when I went back to see her, her chest was still open (covered by blue cellophane looking stuff but I could see in there) and she was on life support. I told her to be strong and to fight. The doctors didn't expect her to survive the night but low and behold, she did. They were shocked! The heart attack had damaged the left side of her heart so badly that it could no longer function on it's own so she got an LVAD....yes, the same thing from Grey's Anatomy where they cut Denny's wires : )
Long story short, my mom was given a 9% chance of survival. She also suffered a stroke when she coded. She beat all of those odds and somehow was barely affected by the stroke, a tad bit of vision loss and a little short term memory loss but that's it. She has been living with her LVAD for over a year...basically it's pump that does the work for her heart since it can't beat on it's own. It's portable life support. It has a controller and a battery pack and she wears the batteries in a fanny pack type thing. She can't drive and can't be left alone for long periods of time so it's been a lot of work for my family and big adjustments have had to be made.
She needs a heart transplant. She has passed all of the tests, even at 66 the rest of her is healthy enough. She has been in and out of the hospital and had 5 major surgeries on the past 13 months.
She got a call from the doctors today and they wanted her to be admitted for some tests, something isn't looking right. I'm so worried that she needs another open heart surgery and if so, this will delay the possibility of the heart transplant even further. Plus, there's only so much open heart surgery that one can take. She should be getting tests done tomorrow and then we will know what the next step is.
On top of all of this, I am dealing with major family drama. It's been a really rough start to 2013.
If you could spare some positive vibes, prayers and whatever else you do for my family and I, that would mean quite a bit to me. XOXOXO
