I am not blessed with patience. I hate waiting.... You know all those 6 hour line-ups during the Olympics (to get on a zip-line, to see the Olympic medals)? No way in hell, I would wait in such a lineup. Never....
My mother has always had patience - if there is something FREE at the end of the lineup, she will be there.
There is a lot of waiting in a hospital.....I think there is even more waiting in a hospital ward for the elderly. So we wait..... As we wait to determine what other cancer my mother might have, her pain has gotten worse. Yesterday she started to have pain all through her hips and both legs even while sitting or sleeping. That means more morphine and that means that she can't really stand up at all anymore. It means she will likely become confused and more sleepy. And it means that any faint hope of recovering mobility is sliding further away.
I do hope that there might be some final diagnosis and treatment plan by the end of the week - otherwise there will be more waiting over the Easter weekend (and I may have mentioned that I am not a patient person).
In the meantime, here are some things that indicate that my mother is not well: that she will miss Easter lunch (planned to be at our house) - she couldn't care less; that they didn't bring her a wheelchair with promised wheelchair training yesterday - she couldn't care less; that I beat her in almost every game of cards we have been playing over the last few days - she couldn't care less. Missing a party? Not learning how to drive a wheelchair? Losing at cards? She is sick......
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I have always maintained the patient needs a gatekeeper to help with all things medical and related to care. You are your mother's gatekeeper and aid. A very hard thing to do and watch. It will not teach you patience, I think that it will be the opposite but your mother can not do the complaining or other things that need to be done.
Nora
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