Summer trip to MINNESOTA (part 2)

The "unplanned" part of our vacation:

A little background: When we landed in MN on June 11, my Mom had not been feeling well for a few days. She took herself to Urgent Care that morning for a lot of congestion, cough and overall feeling weak. They gave her an inhaler and an Rx for the cough. Monday she felt poorly and stayed home (while we did the Mall of America). Then Tuesday she still felt badly. We called her PCP, talked through a few things, and then got an appointment for Wednesday morning.  Tuesday evening she came to Lily's birthday dinner, but only was able to stay an hour or so due to how bad she felt and how much pain she was in. Wednesday morning we took her to the doctor. They ordered a chest x-ray at another location. We did that immediately. We were home only an hour when her PCP called to say she had pneumonia in her right lung and she needed to go to Methodist ER immediately. After sitting in the ER for a while and doing all the check in things, the doctor let us know they would be admitting Mom.

The first diagnosis was pneumonia in the right lung and a pleural effusion. After 24 hours of 3 different IV antibiotics, they did not seem to be attacking it. They first drained the fluid but the CT scan showed a lot more. A chest tube was inserted on Friday. That was very painful. The chest tube stayed in for 2 days until the empyema drained. They collected 1300ml! 

The "planned" part of our vacation:

We had planned to drive to Jake's parent's home in Spooner, WI Thursday through Saturday. Jake ended up doing that with the kids. I stayed at the hospital with Mom.

Jake & the kids stopped downtown to see Aunt Bekah, on the way out to Spooner.

IDS Center - downtown Minneapolis

The Spooner Railroad Museum

Walking to the spring - twice!

Saturday lunch out before they drove back to The Cities

Happy Father's Day to one of  T H E  B E S T !

I also need to say how amazing Jake is and was, especially this trip. He continued doing vacation with our kids and seeing all the family while I was in the hospital with my Mom (Wednesday through Sunday) and then helping her at home the remainder of our trip.

Cousin row at church

My Mom was discharged from Methodist Hospital at 2:30pm on Sunday. So incredibly thankful. The grandkids made this sign to welcome her home. Even though the middle of our vacation did not look how we thought it would, I am so grateful that we were in MN to help Mom with her hospitalization and be with her.