Flor, ¿Y qué tal ha estado tu 2025?
El mío bien, el de mi madre no.
Flor, how has your 2025 been? Mine has been fine, but my mother's has not. We were visiting the doctors again... We are like the children's song The Flea and the Louse 🎶 "It's no longer because of the eye that we already cured... Now it's the 'SOPONCIO' where will we cure it?" 🎶 Unfortunately, when we thought we had the cataract surgery from four months ago "under control," one day out of the blue she woke up with vertigo; an uncontrollable dizziness that obviously made her nervous, raised her blood pressure, and forced us to rush to the emergency room.
- Realización de exámenes rutinarios y de niveles de azúcar.
- Rayos X de columna y cervical.
- Visita a especialistas: otorrino, oftalmólogo, cardiólogo, psiquiatra, neurología.
The attention was immediate; the doctors with their standard questions and emergency examinations provided several approaches, but nothing certain. They managed to stabilize her with antiemetic medications, which are to reduce the feeling of dizziness and to arrive at a more specific diagnosis of what might be happening, they sent: - Routine tests and blood sugar levels. - X-rays of the spine and cervical area. - Visit to specialists: ENT, ophthalmologist, cardiologist, psychiatrist, neurology.
1st visit. We went to the cardiologist because if there is anything that scares my mother, it's high blood pressure, so it was our immediate check-up. Everything was under control, so from the scare, only her blood pressure went up.
2nd visit. We went to the orthopedist, and his diagnosis was more complex; he talked to us about the wear on her vertebrae, which was causing the dizziness. The path ahead is long because he referred us to the physiatrist and from there to therapy. With that diagnosis, we did what we were advised, and NOTHING! Some injections, more pills, treatments, and the dizziness continues.
3rd visit. The ENT specialist deals with vertigo and associated syndromes. We discussed everything that had happened, and he didn't tell us anything about the symptoms; he just cleaned her ears and that was it. This frustrated us a bit because we keep investing time and money, and the dizziness continues, now permanently.
4th visit. Finally, we are visiting the neurology specialist, because we certainly NEED ANSWERS! And although they haven't provided a concise answer, at least they sent us for an MRI to study the inner ear and the cerebellum more thoroughly.
1.ª visita. Fuimos al cardiólogo porque si algo asusta a mi madre es la subida de la presión, por lo que fue nuestra revisión inmediata. Todo estaba bajo control, así que del susto, solo subió la presión.
2.ª visita. Nos dirigimos al traumatólogo y su diagnóstico fue más complejo; Nos habló del desgaste que están sufriendo sus vértebras y que por eso era el mareo. El camino a transitar es largo porque nos remitió al fisiatra y de allí a terapia. Con ese diagnóstico, hicimos lo que nos recomendaron y ¡NADA! Algunas inyecciones, más pastillas, tratamientos y los mareos continúan.
3.ª visita. El otorrino es especialista en vértigos y síndromes asociados. Estuvimos comentando todo lo presentado, no nos dijo nada sobre la sintomatología, solo limpió los oídos y ya. Esto nos frustró un poco porque seguimos invirtiendo dinero y tiempo y los mareos siguen, ahora, de manera permanente.
4.ª visita. Por último, estamos visitando a la especialista en neurología, porque ciertamente ¡NECESITAMOS RESPUESTAS! Y aunque no nos han dado respuesta concisa, al menos enviaron a hacer la resonancia para estudiar más a fondo el oído interno y el cerebelo.
This leaves us hopeful and somewhat anxious, as we don’t know what might come out of it, but we believe it will be the path to finding her total healing both physically and spiritually. We have an appointment with the psychiatrist in sight because this certainly generates anxiety, stress, depression, fatalistic thoughts, and she is not resting enough. However, the expenses have been so high that we have resorted to some alternatives before going for her treatment. It's not an excuse because a human being is integral and the situation is already having consequences for us as a family, but I hope to take her soon.
I feel optimistic; regardless of what comes out of that MRI, I believe it will be another step toward healing and being able to help her with whatever treatments are necessary. Everything else, I leave to God, because He knows what our hearts long for, but we are also obedient to the plans He has for us. I won’t deny that this situation is exhausting. There are days and nights of thoughts, visits, medical rest, help, expenses—MANY EXPENSES! So I have developed patience as a mechanism to care for her and give her the best of me for her full recovery. I don’t see it as a sacrifice; I don’t think about that, I just take action and then I’ll see the rest later. I appreciate your reading this and hope that our next encounters will be tests passed and we can continue with our lives as well as we were because my mother, at 75 years old, still feels whole enough to continue being productive and independent, and that’s how I want to keep seeing her.
La portada, el separador, al igual que el banner, los hice en Canvas.
Para traducir el texto usé Google Traductor.
Hasta un nuevo encuentro 🌺
The photographs are my property. The cover, the separator, just like the banner, I made in Canvas. To translate the text I used Google Translate. Until we meet again 🌺.
