Mom remained in the hospital on this day in 2014, as she still had a fever. We thought, initially, that her cellulitis contributed to her fever. But, her medical history since her diagnosis indicated that, perhaps, she required a new stent in her bile duct for bile removal, and that "guess" was correct.They changed her stent while she remained in bed, with hopes that she would return home within a few days. This was on a Thursday, so if she wasn't released by Friday or Saturday, we'd have to wait until Monday as the hospital didn't release patients on Sundays.
I noted in a Facebook post that mom was "a little loopy" over the past 24 hours. I learned over time that when mom developed a fever, she became totally irrational and mean. Dad couldn't handle it, but I had some practice, as that's how she would treat me when I was a child when dad wasn't around. If you have questions about why I would help mom in the last stages of her life in light of this information, it was because I did it for dad. When mom ran a fever, he froze like a deer in headlights in the face of her behavior.
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