Over the weekend my family travelled to Branson, MO to meet up with my dad's side of the fam for my grandparents 60th anniversary! We rented a 6 bedroom house just for the occasion and things couldn't have gone worse....
We arrived Thursday around 5:30 and of course I was starving and supper wouldn't be ready for another hour and a half. My pregnant self of course had a hissy fit but this truly wasn't the bad part. As soon as my family got there we had dinner and everyone got to talking and laughing and just having a good time. My cousin and her husband made a movie of all of us sharing memories about my grandparents and we showed it to them (of course my grandmother bawled her eyes out and my papa laughed like none other at all the stuff we said=mission accomplished). So here is where the fun for my lil family of 6 ends.
In the middle of the night my dad started getting sick, to put it politely he just couldn't get out of the bathroom. On Friday morning we all travelled to Silver Dollar City (which is like a country/redneck six flags) with my sick dad complaining the whole way there. By the time we parked and got to the tram that takes you to the park, my dad was extremely out of breath, sweating like crazy and looked like he was about to pass out. We left him and my mom at the tram station and went into the park to ask for medical assistance. My dad's blood pressure was super low when it is usually high so they took him to the hospital. Turns out he was extremely dehydrated and had caught a nasty bug...what made his blood pressure so low was the combo of dehydration and his blood pressure meds. So now dad is fine, very tired and still sick but fine...
Friday evening rolls around and all the ladies are sitting around the table just chit chatting...giving me advice and weird stories about pregnancy...talking about my cousin's new house etc. My mom all of the sudden leaps up from the table and walks downstairs...dad comes up 5 minutes later to say mom threw up all over the bathroom. So now everyone is thinking that my mom has what my dad has and that we are all going to get sick...terrible!!
Saturday morning- it is time to take the family pictures (which turned out awesome!) and my mom is still sick. She does however make it upstairs to take the picture only to return back to bed as soon as she was done. She spent the WHOLE day downstairs sleeping on and off and drinking a million gallons of water but keeping none of it down. The last time I checked on her which was around 11:00 that night she was breathing REALLY hard but she was sleeping and she hadn't thrown up in a while.
Around 3:00 AM I feel someone tugging at my blankets to wake me up...it was my dad. He asked me to come and talk to mom because he couldn't make any sense out of what she was saying. I walk in to see my mom on the bed still breathing so rapidly I thought she had run a marathon and I asked her what was wrong. What came out of her mouth made absolutely no sense to me or my dad. She was completely disoriented and she truly acted as if she had a stroke. I ran upstairs to get my cousin, who is a nurse, to ask for her advice on what to do. She immediately said to call the paramedics...the paramedics also checked to see if she had a stroke because honestly they couldn't think of anything else. Until that is, they checked her blood sugar level and it was well over 500...which if you know anything is WAY too high! Apparently what was happening was that she was in a diabetic coma...which for our family was super strange because we thought no one in our family had diabetes. My mom went to the hospital and was diagnosed with diabetes and they have been monitoring her ever since. I called my Aunt, my mom's sister, to let her know what had happened and she informed me that my grandfather had diabetes and they just never told anyone!!! Now we assume adult onset diabetes runs in my family...just great!
Anyway to make this whole story end...my mom is still in Missouri and she may or may not get out of the ICU tomorrow, her blood sugar just shot up again so we will have to see. Hopefully, she will be able to come home this week...I know my nephew already misses her and it is so weird not being able to text her or anything...
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Ahhhhhhhh I finally had a chance to read this!! I would have been freaking out. I'm so glad she's getting better!
Umm and keeping family illness a secret - bad idea.
Ok so when I came home from my physical before we left for the island I was telling my mom that I had high blood pressure and cholesterol and it wasn't until then that she mentioned both run in literally like every single person on her side of the family! Like hello! I don't know why they don't think heritable things like that aren't important! So glad everyone is ok now, tho!
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