MOM is on the left, Rest in peace
Today is March 30th 2010 and a changing day in my life cause the effects of alcohol has just killed my mother-in-law after years struggling with the illness of alcoholism and she thought she had a whipped after years a sobriety.
Mom was the oldest sister a 6 children her family, 3 girls, 6 boys, from the Philipines, she retire from UCLA 1997 as lab tech and lost her husband to diabetes in 2001, this women was one of the strongest women I had the pleasure to have in my life.
She took ill and was rushed to emergency at Little Company of Mary in Torrance , CA about 6 weeks ago, she was diagnosed with an infection in her abdomen in the form a large abscess and was under going treatment and looked as she was be going home in 2 weeks but after a week her insurance company demanded she in transferred to UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center or they would not pay for any of the treatment and canceled, this is where things started go wrong and backwards.
UCLA Santa Monica started there treatment and said the LCM was giving her the wrong drugs and there made changes to her treatment, the drugs made her delirious and she could not talk, the doctors said it was a side effect of the drugs, after a week their sent her to a nursing home to recover but after a couple of days and more test they found she required surgery to repair the tear in the colon and that was 8 days ago, I saw her pn Sunday (3-28-2010) and she looked good other than the drain in her nose, All she wanted was to go Home
Thing looks ok last night where my wife , brother-in-law went to see her and for all good reason there was no cause for alarm, but that dreaded phone rang at 3:30am this morning to say her had to pulse and they tried revive her, SHE DIED at 4:30am March 30, 2010
Please if you struggle with an addiction I have seen what the illness can do to someones body.
Thank you for sharing your loss with us. It is a sad fact that alcoholism takes many lives. We must remember that much of the destruction the those who died of this terrible disease was done because of the disease itself and the power it had over its victim. Again I am sorry for your loss but believe your story will help many of those who know someone who is suffering from alcoholism or struggling with the alcohol themselves.
By: Bobby on March 31, 2010
at 8:17 am