Thursday, February 19, 2009

Waiting for my mother

My mother is in surgery right now, she has an infected foot which has been causing her much pain. She is diabetic, and normally her pain tolerance level is very high, she has gone through many major health-related crises and normally she was very dignified in handling pain. This time it must have been very painful as she would cry every time the painkiller effect wore off. It started with pain in her big toe, but we could not see any inflammation mark. Neither could the GP whom we brought her to see. And then when it got really bad last week the GP gave her antibiotics and painkiller, but the pain got worse. She was admitted to the hospital 2 nights ago, when she begged my father to take her to the emergency room, something that she had not even wanted to consider before. And yesterday, her whole foot started to swell, with pus. I have been praying for everything to be alright. That is all that I can do. Here I am in the city, and there she is in my hometown. I am flying back on Saturday morning. And in the mean time all I can do is pray that she will be alright.

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