My mom is doing wonderful. Eveything the doctors told us would be wrong is fine. She has made an amazing recovery. She remembers everything up to the morning of the accident. She doesn't remember the accident (thankfully) and she only remembers the last week of her hospital stay. I think that is a huge blessing from Heavenly Father that she does not have to remember all she went through. She had to have a day surgery this morning to remove the screws from her jaw. When they unwired her jaw her skin had already grown over the screws and she was to anxious to try and take them out. It was a quick 10 minute surgery. Everything went great.
She still panics but has a pretty good control over it. She takes medicine to help calm her. Her and Sam are going to move home tomorrow. I hope that she is not pushing herself to fast but I guess I have to cut the apron strings sometime. :)! I will probably go get her in the mornings and have Sam pick her up at my house after school so she is not alone all day. We'll see how it goes.
The bills are flowing in and they are amazing:
one month in ICU - $336,903.17
neuosurgeon for neck surgery - $24,000
life flight -$8,998
anesthesia - $5,000
dr visits while in ICU - $360 per day
We are still waiting for the bills from the last month in the hospital, the doctor bill for the trach and feeding tube and the doctor bill for her jaw surgery. I'm sure there will be others, those are just the ones we are aware of. Thank heavens for insurance.
2 comments:
Oh my goodness Sadie! When I posted on your blog last time, I had no idea any of that had happened. I just read everything that has gone on with your mom and I can only imagine what you and your family have been going through. I'm glad things are looking up! I loved reading your thoughts throughout this hard time in your life...it really puts things in perspective! Stay strong. I will keep you all in my prayers!
It makes me sick to read those bills! UGGGHHHH!!!! Yeah, when we had to go to the ER last month cuz Steve was choking, they billed our insurance $2K and he never even got seen by a doctor!!!! We sat there so long that he was finally able to work it (the food) down. The only "treatment" he got was having his vitals checked...and for that, we saw on our EOB the $2K+ bill! Crazy! But, for you guys, soooooo worth having your mama around!
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