A Farewell
On Tuesday, January 23, Maw Maw had an outpatient procedure to remove a stint and break up multiple kidney stone that caused a kidney infection in December. The procedure went as planned, but when she started to get dressed to go home, she was very weak and her blood pressure was extremely low. The nurse in the surgery center started to help her and mom was there very concerned. As the evening went on, doctors worked to give her medication to raise her blood pressure and began to suspect that sepsis was the cause. Likely the infection was in her kidney and became stirred up during the procedure - urosepsis. Jeanne' and I joined mom at the hospital as we waited for the doctors to get her stable enough to move from the surgical center to ICU. We couldn't see her until she finally arrived in ICU and although the situation was quite serious, we had hope that the four medications to raise her blood pressure and the antibiotic would work and she would heal. We sat toge...