My mom

My mother was in the hospital all week last week.  She started seeing double vision during the weekend.  On Monday morning, she was flipping words and leaving them out.  She went to the ER and they thought it was a stroke.  They ruled out stroke but had no idea what it was.  They kept her in all week and did a bunch of tests and scans.

They got her diabetes under control and let her go on Friday and we went out to PA to visit her.  I bought her some eye patches because when she wears them she doesn't see double.  They were assuming that the vision had something to do with her diabetes and were awaiting more test results. 

My mom was getting antsy this week because no one called her back and she wanted to know the test results.  After a week of waiting, who wouldn't?  She called the doctor and the nurse accidentally read her the results of her tests.  We've now all been googling trying to find information.  Everything we find is either okay, bad, or terrible.  I stopped googling.  I'll wait to hear from the doctor.

One thing could just be something along the lines of an autoimmune disease (I don't remember exactly what it was and I'm not going to try to spell it). But its incurable so still not good - it would account for my mom getting tired all the time doing normal tasks.  The other issue could be a brain tumor or cancer.  This is when I stopped googling because sometimes its better to do that.

She has a doctor's appointment early next week and hopefully it's good news or at least some easily fixable not too invasive news.  Please keep her in your thoughts if possible. 

So, yes, that's why I haven't been around for a while this time.  My house is a mess, I need to make meal plans again, and I need to clean out the yucky stuff from my fridge.  I'm down 10 lbs and but I keep gaining and losing the same .5lb for the past week and a half.  From the added stress (and the annoyance of going up and down) I've been eating crappy again and need to get back on plan.