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Storytime Tapestry Newsletter The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural
awareness throughout the world. Special Treat Christmas Contest Entry– Ellie Braun Haley and below I provide you with an update and I extend to you a huge thank you for caring, for praying, for being a gentle person of much depth. thank you ever so much. ellie Braun-Haley MOTHER I remember crying as I drove in September trying to get to mother’s side and be with her perhaps for one last time. Doctors were not holding up a lot of hope for her to make it through the surgery. I couldn’t handle the worrying and so I asked God, my Heavenly Father if he could do the fretting for me. I chastised myself as I drove, “if you gave the worrying to God why are you crying?” I asked myself and with that realized I had put mother in His hands and now I just needed to be strong for her and all my brothers and sisters. Well mother came through that operation. It is always hard on seniors to go under anesthetic and I think the most difficult thing in the world was to see the fear she went through. Until she made it through the fog that anesthetic can create, she said it felt as though monsters were on all sides of her. At 90 years of age mother is surrounded by loving family and though we see her mostly as a very fragile sweet lady we were soon to see amazing courage from her and in an abundance! Up until September 21, mom was living in her own apartment with a younger sister. The two were independent and got out to movies, visiting with friends and family and still enjoyed planning their own menus. Suddenly mother was confined to a hospital bed and surrounded by an ever changing sea of medical staff. She couldn’t sit up, so if there was no one around to help her with her food, it sat untouched. In two months, she was moved to four different rooms in the hospital, had her hip dislocate while she was in the bed, fought a urinary infection and another infection that never was identified. She didn’t complain. She displayed a great sense of humor, yet there were those moments when you knew she wondered if she would ever leave the confines of a hospital. On December thirteen the hospital assessed they could do no more to help her walk and they were discharging her for a Nursing Home. They began looking for one that might have room, but fate stepped in and her hip dislocated again. This time doctors decided if mother is to have any quality of life they would have to go in and rebuild and repair the hip socket. That was scheduled for December 15. I think we were all grateful they decided not to administer a general anesthetic. My brother Don and I were with mother as we waited for her to go into surgery. Things were taking a long time, as the doctors had already visited with mom and medical staff were all shuffling around but nothing seemed to be happening. I wondered out loud where the doctors had disappeared to and mom joked, “I think they went for dinner.” My brother said he spoke to mother less than 48 hours later: “She was "chipper", quite talkative and in very good spirits. (I wonder if some of that was the morphine.) She said she was already getting her appetite back. Her one complication, was that she has another bladder infection.” Another brother, Gerry visited mother and he said, “I found her to be like a young bird in the nest ready to take flight. She was very awake and smiling and ready to converse. We had some good laughs together as I told her about my intent to buy her some new sox and how that did not happen. I believe the doctors just replaced the screws and secured the hip joint. It is positive in that she came through the operation like a real trooper and if she could, she would pick up her mat and walk, as Jesus said to the lame man.” Doctors have not had any hope that mother would ever walk again, as her back is badly deteriorated and the left leg seems to be receiving very little messages from the brain due to nerve problems. I have decided that mother wants to be here and God is supporting her in that decision. Whether she walks again will also be in His hands. I know that prayers have been said for her by many and I know she is here today, to spend another Christmas with us. I accept and rejoice in every moment we have this lovely woman in our lives. She has been through so much in the last 88 days. She knew if she fought to remain with us she would have to endure discomfort and pain, but she didn’t hesitate. She is determined to remain. I thank all who have been praying for Patricia Snell, my mother. I thank God for hearing all of our prayers and blessing my mother with improved health. I will be spending my Christmas day at a hospital, with the most courageous woman I’ve ever met, my mom. Thank you for all the prayers/ Ellie Braun-Haley shaley@telusplanet.net |
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