Thank you to everyone who contacted me concerned about my mother. To reassure everyone that she’s fine, here’s a brief recap of the Bloody Nose Incident…
Two weeks ago, Mom went out to lunch with her friend Sally, and midway through the meal developed a bloody nose–she has occasionally had incidents like this before, especially in dry conditions. Usually, she’s able to stop the bleeding in a few minutes, but this time it just didn’t want to stop. This freaked her out a bit, so she and Sally went to the hospital emergency room. There, the medical folks determined that she had unusually high blood pressure (probably from anxiety over the bleeding combined with a stressful week before). The gave her a sedative and then packed her nose with an inflatable packing device. By the time Andrew and I arrived at the hospital, she was doing great (although a bit loopy thanks to the sedative). We took her home, and a couple days later she went to her ENT doctor to have the packing removed.
All is well that ends well, as the old saying goes.
