This morning around 9, I received a call from Atria saying my mother had been "unresponsive" when they went to give her her meds and they had to call the paramedics. This was more than her simple passing out for a few minutes and then being groggy, this was full-on unresponsive. Of course we don't know how long she was out before they found her in bed, but they found her, called the paramedics, they came, couldn't rouse her, put her in the ambulance, took her to the hospital, Atria called me and I was at the ER within 15 minutes and she was still out. Her eyes were closed and she was not responding to anything.
I remembered how scared she was the first time she was taken to the ER and I went to hold her hand and told her I was there and her eyes flickered but then they started rolling from side to side and she didn't seen to recognize that I was there.
Eventually she started to come out of it, but she had to have been in this state for at least 30-45 minutes, if not longer (previously her spells only last a minute or two). She couldn't remember where she was or why she was there and I explained it to her endlessly. I knew she was going to be OK when she started flirting with the cute paramedic who had worked on her in the ambulance.
When I took her back to Atria, I was going to spend the afternoon, but she was so chipper and active that I decided I should just leave her alone so she could take a nap. I arranged for Atria to put her on a 2 hour watch for the next couple of days just in case.
I remembered how scared she was the first time she was taken to the ER and I went to hold her hand and told her I was there and her eyes flickered but then they started rolling from side to side and she didn't seen to recognize that I was there.
Eventually she started to come out of it, but she had to have been in this state for at least 30-45 minutes, if not longer (previously her spells only last a minute or two). She couldn't remember where she was or why she was there and I explained it to her endlessly. I knew she was going to be OK when she started flirting with the cute paramedic who had worked on her in the ambulance.
When I took her back to Atria, I was going to spend the afternoon, but she was so chipper and active that I decided I should just leave her alone so she could take a nap. I arranged for Atria to put her on a 2 hour watch for the next couple of days just in case.
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