Mom is back in the Mayo Clinic Hospital

Last Friday (February 4th, 2022) was one year to date since my mom was first rushed to the hospital because something was going wrong with her… What a year it has been! Well, last Friday found us being rushed to the hospital, but this time it was back to The Mayo Clinic. We thank God that she was able to get back there.

Overnight, Mom got to where she wasn’t alert or talking to me. She would keep her eyes shut and she was quivering. A CT of her head revealed that her brain ventricles had gotten enlarged, so the rehab facility sent for an ambulance to take us to Mayo Clinic’s ER. We found out that Mom got a bacteria infection that had affected her shunt. They had to remove that shunt and install an external ventricle drain. She is in the ICU, and they are treating her with strong antibiotics. Since she was not very alert, they put her on a ventilator because they didn’t want her to aspirate. Also, the doctor said that she has a little pneumonia, but she does not have COVID (praise God).

They are going to do an MRI of her brain today to make sure there isn’t an abscess. They do plan to wean her off of the sedation and ventilator over the next days or so. Please just continue to pray hard for my mom. It’s been very scary how quickly all of this happened. Please pray for infections to go away and stay off of her. We will all keep on praying, believing, and pressing on. We’ll keep working on getting her better. Thank y’all for holding her in your prayers.