Hospital Visit

I made another trip to the hospital yesterday.

This time it wasn't for my mom. It was for my mom's only surviving older sister, my Aunt Marilyn. Aunt Marilyn has a severe case of pneumonia as well as in the midst of congestive heart failure (which was diagnosed years ago). She was rushed to the hospital Tuesday. After getting settled in a room, she went downhill and was moved to ICU late Tuesday night. By noon on Wednesday, she was stabilized enough to be moved to a room again. I went to visit her yesterday afternoon as a representative of the family. We weren't sure if Mom should go to the hospital with all of the germs so soon after her surgery. But, she might make the trip to the hospital in the next few days.

Aunt Marilyn is a trooper (everyone in my mom's family are troopers!) and is very much a social person. She looked very small in her hospital bed, but we had lots of laughs talking about her cute paramedics, her great niece and nephew and Mom's surgery. This is the 3rd year in a row that this has happened to Aunt Marilyn. She gets pneumonia, recovers a bit in the hospital and then goes to a rehabilitation facility for more care and recovery and then she is back home. So, we joked about that too. She said, "Most people go to Las Vegas for the winter, I go to Rehab." I laughed so hard at that one.It's true and a very typical Aunt Marilyn comment! I don't know if she will pull through this time. The doctors don't seem to think so. But, don't count Marilyn out yet. She's stubborn and she's only used up her 8 out of her 9 lives.