I don't normally post threads like this, but this is an exception.
About 3½ to 4 years ago my mother was in a car accident. She was stopped at a stop light when a man in a truck rear-ended her car. He was speeding, not paying any attention when he hit some ice. She tensed up at the last second when she saw him coming. This probably increased damage to her body more than if she didn't expect it. She received soft tissue damage and a fractured T-6 vertebrae. At the time the fracture was hairline and wasn't picked up. Tissue damage is pretty much impossible to treat and is left up to the body to fix. Being the kind woman she is, she was more worried about not suing the guy because he was so poor. He had no insurance or very little coverage so she couldn't really expect anything from him. Now, earlier this year she was hit again. This time, it was during May. She was turning left and was blind sided by somebody going about 45MPH who had ran a red light. This pretty much took everything out her. She was pretty much okay, but her unnoticed fracture had progressed into a broken bone. There was a possibility of it slicing her spinal cord. Thankfully that didn't happen, but she's been in even worse pain since the 1st accident. Sometime not long after than, she got cancer. It's possible that she had cancer before that, but bone scans around the time of her accident show that she probably didn't. It started out in her lower right lung. She was put into the hospital a couple months later because she had gotten pneumonia. The day she was taken to the hospital we had a Nurse/neighbor watch her while my family was at a Church service for her. She was unconcious and blue all over. This was a day after her first Chemotherapy treatment. For 10 days she was intibated (had a breathing tube down her throat and was unconcious). She spent a couple weeks in the hospital. After that she came home and had six weeks of Chemo & Radiation. After her treatments she was evaluated. The cancer had spread down her legs and she had small tumors in her brain. She had some treatment after that, but decided to quit. The pain from the Chemo/Radiation and her injuries was too much. Last Wednesday she decided that she had enough and was ready to die. Right now she's getting Hospice, which is a business that makes people as comfortable as possible in their final days. So, here I am today.
What I'm asking for everybody here to do is to pray for her. I'm not trying to get attention or make you feel bad for me or my family. Even if you don't believe in God, all I ask is that you think about her. I'm still holding out for a miracle though Smile . She's only 45 and is still strong and clear minded. Normally at this point, people who have had lung cancer along with all of the medication and other cancer in their bodies have trouble remembering things and such, but not her. She's more worried about me than about herself. The doctors give her about 2-3 weeks. It'd be really nice that if she's going to die soon that I can have at least one more Christmas with her. Thanks. If this post looks familiar it might be because I'm putting it on a few different forums.
About 3½ to 4 years ago my mother was in a car accident. She was stopped at a stop light when a man in a truck rear-ended her car. He was speeding, not paying any attention when he hit some ice. She tensed up at the last second when she saw him coming. This probably increased damage to her body more than if she didn't expect it. She received soft tissue damage and a fractured T-6 vertebrae. At the time the fracture was hairline and wasn't picked up. Tissue damage is pretty much impossible to treat and is left up to the body to fix. Being the kind woman she is, she was more worried about not suing the guy because he was so poor. He had no insurance or very little coverage so she couldn't really expect anything from him. Now, earlier this year she was hit again. This time, it was during May. She was turning left and was blind sided by somebody going about 45MPH who had ran a red light. This pretty much took everything out her. She was pretty much okay, but her unnoticed fracture had progressed into a broken bone. There was a possibility of it slicing her spinal cord. Thankfully that didn't happen, but she's been in even worse pain since the 1st accident. Sometime not long after than, she got cancer. It's possible that she had cancer before that, but bone scans around the time of her accident show that she probably didn't. It started out in her lower right lung. She was put into the hospital a couple months later because she had gotten pneumonia. The day she was taken to the hospital we had a Nurse/neighbor watch her while my family was at a Church service for her. She was unconcious and blue all over. This was a day after her first Chemotherapy treatment. For 10 days she was intibated (had a breathing tube down her throat and was unconcious). She spent a couple weeks in the hospital. After that she came home and had six weeks of Chemo & Radiation. After her treatments she was evaluated. The cancer had spread down her legs and she had small tumors in her brain. She had some treatment after that, but decided to quit. The pain from the Chemo/Radiation and her injuries was too much. Last Wednesday she decided that she had enough and was ready to die. Right now she's getting Hospice, which is a business that makes people as comfortable as possible in their final days. So, here I am today.
What I'm asking for everybody here to do is to pray for her. I'm not trying to get attention or make you feel bad for me or my family. Even if you don't believe in God, all I ask is that you think about her. I'm still holding out for a miracle though Smile . She's only 45 and is still strong and clear minded. Normally at this point, people who have had lung cancer along with all of the medication and other cancer in their bodies have trouble remembering things and such, but not her. She's more worried about me than about herself. The doctors give her about 2-3 weeks. It'd be really nice that if she's going to die soon that I can have at least one more Christmas with her. Thanks. If this post looks familiar it might be because I'm putting it on a few different forums.
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