fatafelice
Brilliant_Rock
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I don''t really know how to write everything that is in my head right now, but I need some sort of outlet and you girls have been so supportive that I hope you don''t mind "listening."
Mike''s mom had a massive heart attack yesterday. She is in the ICU, on a ventilator. As of this morning, the neurologist didn''t sound very optimistic, meaning that he thinks that her brain was deprived of oxygen too long and that she has lost too much function. He said that, at this point, he cannot reccommend that she has the heart bypass and valve replacement surgery that she would otherwise need.
This is somewhat unexpected, as his mom had very recently been in to the hospital for some problems that they thought were blood pressure-related, but she passed her stress test, etc., and they sent her home. Apparently, she has not been feeling well at all for the last few weeks, but she wouldn''t tell any of the kids, and wouldn''t listen to her sister and friend when they told her to move up her appt. with the cardiologist.
Mike and his family are understandably devastated. To make matters worse, his brother-in-law''s father was just diagnossed (Monday) with advanced and inopperable cancer.
And, as many of you are aware, we are supposed to be getting married next weekend. I''ve been trying really hard to focus on his mom and family and not think about the wedding, but I have contacted my venue and my florist, and have to let them know by Friday what we are going to do. Mike and I haven''t really had much chance to talk, but I am opperating on the assumption that we will not be getting married on the 30th. We could postpone until later in the summer, but there are no guarantees that that will actually solve anything, as his mother''s and BIL''s father''s health are so uncertain.
I don''t know what to do, or think, at this point. I''m not really looking for advice, since I doubt anyone else will know what to do any better than I do, but if you have some, I am open to it.
And if you could send out some prayers for my FI''s mom and his family, it would mean a lot to me and to him.
Mike''s mom had a massive heart attack yesterday. She is in the ICU, on a ventilator. As of this morning, the neurologist didn''t sound very optimistic, meaning that he thinks that her brain was deprived of oxygen too long and that she has lost too much function. He said that, at this point, he cannot reccommend that she has the heart bypass and valve replacement surgery that she would otherwise need.
This is somewhat unexpected, as his mom had very recently been in to the hospital for some problems that they thought were blood pressure-related, but she passed her stress test, etc., and they sent her home. Apparently, she has not been feeling well at all for the last few weeks, but she wouldn''t tell any of the kids, and wouldn''t listen to her sister and friend when they told her to move up her appt. with the cardiologist.
Mike and his family are understandably devastated. To make matters worse, his brother-in-law''s father was just diagnossed (Monday) with advanced and inopperable cancer.
And, as many of you are aware, we are supposed to be getting married next weekend. I''ve been trying really hard to focus on his mom and family and not think about the wedding, but I have contacted my venue and my florist, and have to let them know by Friday what we are going to do. Mike and I haven''t really had much chance to talk, but I am opperating on the assumption that we will not be getting married on the 30th. We could postpone until later in the summer, but there are no guarantees that that will actually solve anything, as his mother''s and BIL''s father''s health are so uncertain.
I don''t know what to do, or think, at this point. I''m not really looking for advice, since I doubt anyone else will know what to do any better than I do, but if you have some, I am open to it.
And if you could send out some prayers for my FI''s mom and his family, it would mean a lot to me and to him.
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