Day two

My mom called this morning around 9 am to say that the pain from last night was even worse. She needed to go back to the ER. We went back and they took her after about 10 minutes. By this time, the pain was so bad that she was in tears.

They put her in a room and the ER doctor came into take a look. Yesterday's doctor didn't check her doctor, even though she kept telling him that her back was killing her. Today's doctor looked at her back right away and could feel the spasms. He said that he suspected that she had problem with a disc and that they needed to do an MRI to be sure. After a couple of hours, he came back and told her that she had a herniated disc. They gave her some pain meds and a referral to see another doctor to determine the next step, which may be surgery.

In the meantime, we had a really great talk about a lot of things. They gave her some pain meds so she told me a couple of things twice. We just laughed when that happened. I took the opportunity to liberate all my mom's quarters from her wallet. After all, who needs quarters in the hospital.

It was really nice to talk about things we've never talked about before. In some ways it was like we were just friends today having a really great talk.

I took her home around 4 pm and got her prescription. Hopefully she can get some rest this evening.