Hi, I haven't posted anything on hive for a long time....
basically I have had to step away from my life in the digital world, to be more present in the life around me... last year exactly on August 3rd just on my mom's birthday, she fell in bed with a very strong pain in her pelvic area... at that time I asked for help to pay for doctor visits and food because basically, I had to stop doing everything to take care of her and my brother with down syndrome at the same time... taking care of two people who can't take care of themselves is exhausting...
I managed to take her to the doctor, get her tested... and what I thought was a cure... a gynecologist saw her, cauterized her cervix because she had a low grade intraepithelial lesion and sent her home for 6 months to wait for improvement...
it has been almost a year since then... the gynecologist she went to cauterized her not once, not twice but three times.... "because the tissue is not healing as it should and I don't know why" were the words of the gynecologist ... when my mom wrote to him for any discomfort or strange discharge, the gynecologist simply did not give importance ... and we thought everything was fine, until a week ago my mom fell back to bed with unbearable pain and this time with worse symptoms than the first time ...
very cold sensation, shivering, tremors that she could not control, purple tongue the first time it happened, to the point that she became so pale that at that moment I thought she was going to die... very fast breathing, and after all that, her body boiled... I know nothing about medicine, or about things like this...
I had no thermometer at home... nothing, researching the symptoms on the internet I knew it was due to fever... because added to all this my mother during those episodes started to become delirious, she babbled things, named relatives that are not on the earthly plane, and talked about things... that after these episodes that now I know were due to fever, she did not remember, in fact today she does not remember much of those days, and today it is hard for her to remember certain things...
all these symptoms accompanied by headache and a lot of tension in the neck.
for me it was five days without being able to sleep, five days where I had to recover the health of my brother who was also ill, take care of them, cook and be there 24-7 ...
it has not been easy at all, i have cried too much, because i don't have a stable job, if i am busy taking care of them i can't work....
I have received help from my closest friends to be able to pay for what my mother needs....
I have done the impossible to be able to move her because we don't have a car.
in venezuela... buying food is a luxury, going to the doctor is a luxury that only the rich or with beneficial positions can do ....
i really just want her to feel better.....
she has already been seen by an internist...
She prescribed antibiotics, she told her that the cause of her discomfort is gynecological so here I am looking for another gynecologist that can treat her and help her... at least tell us what she has and that she can be cured....
the HPV lesions in the cervix can progress and turn into cancer.....
it can be so many things at this point.....
each consultation is $60
and I only make $10 a week as a teacher, hospitals don't work, clinics are expensive... my income just isn't enough to pay for all the medical expenses that are coming up.
this is just being very difficult.
I really don't want anyone to go through this.
It's just me and my brother with down syndrome who also can't fend for himself... and I'm the one who is trying to get by with the two of them.
when it comes to health... there is NOTHING that makes a disease wait... you either have the money to treat it or you die....
Sorry for the absence ...
I hope that in the future everything will just be better and my mom will be healthy....
if you want to help ill be grateful..
