Friends,
Mom just called me. She’s at Dr Mextorf’s office right now, and is being picked up there by ambulance and taken to Mercy Hospital in Altoona.
Apparently, she was having trouble speaking last night to a friend on the phone — forgetting words, getting words mixed up and such. So she went to her doctor today to ask him about it. He said he didn’t want her driving until they could get to the bottom of her symptoms. To that end, he’s sending her to the hospital.
She’s going to Mercy because that’s where she’s scheduled for foot surgery tomorrow; she’s getting a toe amputated, and her doctor felt that they could also figure out what’s wrong with her speech there as well.
She’s in danger of having a stroke because, in preps for her foot surgery, they’ve taken her off her daily dose of warfarin so she doesn’t bleed too much during the operation. But her blood might be thickening as a result and causing the problems with her speech.
She was driving a rental car today because her car is at the shop getting maintained. She has the keys for the rental car with her. But that car is at Mextorf’s office. This must be driven from there to here, and we’re still working the details of that. Somehow, whoever does this will have to get the keys from Mom. She’s going to see if the ambulance driver can drop the keys off here on the way to Mercy.
I’ll keep you posted on Mom’s progress.
Tom Hesley
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