Posted 8/31/2017 2:40 PM (GMT 0)
Hey everyone, it's been quite a while since I last posted. I just wanted to give you all an update for those of you who have followed my mom's story...
So maybe a month ago, she started going downhill pretty fast. They stopped her lyme treatment for a couple weeks hoping to give her body time to recover before they started it up again. But it didn't help. Nothing was helping. So, my mom made the decision to stop all treatment for good. She had her PICC line removed, and that was it.
She is still with us, but she slurs when she talks, it's almost impossible to understand her. She can't swallow very well. Just everything is just horrible. She doesn't have much time left according to the doctor. But at this point, I don't want her to live like this anymore. It gets to the point where it's just too much to witness every single day.
It has officially been a year since my mom's first onset of symptoms. A long year full of hell. I never thought this is where I would be a year later. Never in a million years did I think that at 24 years old, I would lose my mom, my best friend. I tried. I tried to save her. I wish I would have figured it out earlier, but I've done everything I can since then.
I don't want her to suffer like this anymore. Please say some prayers for my mom and our family.
-Kari