Mother-in-Law update

Well, I’m back. I drove through the night rather than getting up early to get home at a reasonable hour. The sugary went well. No surprises for the surgeons. We were hoping she wouldn’t need a LVAD put in, but she did. It will be a little adjustment to learn haw the LVAD works, and get use to always having a battery pack strapped to her. Now she just has a long road to recovery. She will be in the hospital for two more weeks, and then she needs to stay near the hospital, in an apartment for a couple more weeks to make sure she can handle the LVAD on her own, and be close for checkups. She is also now on the transplant waiting list. She will need a transplant sometime in a near future. So if you’re not a donor, why the hell not? I have been a donor since I first got my license at 16. If I’m not going to need my parts, might as well give them to someone who does.

The bad thing is the price of all of this. They are probably lucky that they don’t have any money or health insurance, otherwise this would have probably bankrupted them. Since they have nothing, there are programs out there to help them out, which is great. There will still be a bunch of costs that us, and the rest of the family is probably going to have to chip in to cover.

The loss of my Mother-in-Law’s income is really putting them in a bind. My Father-in-Law just has some crappy $12 an hour job, while that was still more than my Monther-in-Law brought in, they really miss her paychecks. I couldn’t imagine living on $12 and hour. We probably put more into savings a month, then they make a month. It almost make me feel bad.

Okay, that’s the update, now time to get back to my RSS feeds. The hospital wifi was down on Wednesday, so I got way behind.