In the Hospital

First thing this morning, Dad told me that Ma wanted to go to the doctor. The earliest appointment was at noon. She insisted that she wanted to go now, just like she was, in her nightgown. I asked her if she wanted to go to the ER, but no, she wanted to go to Kaiser. She had a hard time breathing and her chest hurt. I texted some prayer requests for Ma to our pastor: "Please pray. She can't breathe." 

When we got to the clinic, they put her on a monitor. Her oxygen level was fine but her blood pressure was way up. So, we waited and waited. Half the time I was on the phone reporting to the siblings, talking to the social worker to figure out what to do. She is still pushing to get her placed into a nursing home, preferably straight from the hospital.

Finally around noon, they said they were going to admit her to the hospital just for observation. Dad and I had lunch and then I decided to take him to the bank and at least report her debit card missing. They were not very helpful with that. We really need to get their finances in order.

At around 4, I received a phone call from the heart specialist and she said that she has some kind of heart failures. That is all she said and she was going to have to stay in the hospital to find out more. We all agree that this is not a thing to tell Dad now. I don't think he could handle it with his Alzheimer's. So we wait to see how this unfolds.