We are back from Flagstaff AZ now. My mother has been dealing with asthma and high blood pressure for a long time. She had finally stopped smoking a couple of years ago, but her husband was still smoking. The smoke was so bad in their RV that Steve had a respiratory attack after standing in the doorway for less than a minute. Ray has been smoking inside that RV for the last seven years, and the whole thing really reeks.
They have been spending winters in the southern states every winter since 2001, and this year they were in Bullhead City. They had left Bullhead City a few days earlier, and were staying in Williams AZ at the time mom started feeling badly. Williams is at about 7000 feet, and Bullhead City was close to sea level, so that was probably a big factor... Along with the horrible cigarette smoke, of course. Ray (her husband) was trying to get her to see a doctor but she refused. She wanted to wait until they got back home to Minnesota. Mom had trouble waking up last Thursday, and finally was unable to keep sitting up and just slumped over. There was a nurse in the campsite a few spaces down, and she came and performed CPR. The paramedics came about 2 minutes later and she was taken to the hospital in Williams. They couldn't handle her care so she was airlifted to Flagstaff. Mom never woke up. She had a massive stroke that affected a major portion of her frontal lobe in her brain. Along with that, her heart, kidney (she has only one), and her liver were damaged severely. She was a donor, but there was so much damage they didn't want to recover anything. Saturday the respirator was removed, and she lived only about 30 more minutes once that was done. She and I had been talking a lot more than before over the last several months. I know she was doing what she wanted to be doing, and that she enjoyed taking trips each winter. I know she didn't want to have life support continue when there really was no hope for recovery. I was glad to be there. We couldn't afford the trip at this point, and I'm not sure what to do about the cost, but I'm sure something will happen to take care of it. Ray is taking Mom's ashes back home with him. He seems to be doing OK, and we all got home OK late last night. Kristyne McDaniel If you're going through Hell, keep going! - Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
