Is my mom going to die? what do i do?

Question:

I just graduated from high school 2 weeks ago...the past year has been a very rough ride for me. My mom went in for a major neck surgury, that went REAL bad, in the begining of my school year. After that surgery it took her till April to finally be able to come home...but the surgery left bad long term effects. In the end of May she developed meningitis and was sent back to the hospital to be treated. She was released a week later and was givven daily Anti-biotics to take, and she ended up having an allergic reaction to it so she got sent back in mid-June. Ever since, shes been going down-hill. NO imporvement at all...shes very very weak...never in my life have i ever seen her this ill. Shes partly paralyzed, cant eat, very fatigue, doesnt say a word. It breaks my heart especially seeing my father. Today the doctor told me she thinks my mom has Tuberculosis which i heard is deadly. And the doctor said she cant answer whether my mom is goin to pass away...how do i cope with this?

Answers:
I am so sorry you, your mom and your dad are going through this. Keep your hope up. It sounds like your mom is very, very sick. While no one may know what is going to happen, as long as she is alive, there is hope.
You will be in my prayers.

Sounds like your Mom and family has had a rough year! I cannot tell you if she'll die or not but it seems to me that if she hasn't gotten a specialist, that she needs one. There seems to maybe be several things going on.
I will send out healing for her and hope she will improve soon.
I lost my Mom in March and it was tough even though she was 82. She went down hill so fast and finally none of us wanted her to live the way she was. I know she is still around me and I dream of her often.
I hope the outcome is good for your Mom!

I'm soooo sorry to hear that you and your family are going through all of this.

I would say that for now you should spend as much time as you can with your mom. If you don't do it now, you won't be able to go back later and do it. It will probably not be the most comfortable of things, seeing her weak and ill. But it's important for both of you.

Support your dad. He'll need you to help him be strong. He's probably as much at sea as you are, if not more. Yes, it's your mom; but it's his life mate.

And if it gets too much for you to handle, talk to someone! Go to a teacher that you trusted in school. Go to a church. Go to a therapist. Somewhere in the hospital there will be a chapel of some sort, probably non-denominational. Go there. There are undoubtedly family support services offered at the hospital as well. Use them.

Keeping things held in will not help you or your family in the long run. You need to be strong, but sometimes being strong is also saying that you need help.

This isn't a forgone conclusion that your mom isn't going to pull through this. But no matter what happens, you still need to be mentally healthy and it sounds like this is tearing you up.

Best of luck.

Is my mom going to die? what do i do?

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