Journal+2

1) What was your mother sick with? Deep Vein Thrombosis to pulminary embolism. then had too much coumadin/ warfarin (blood thinner) chemist father called it rat poison. 2) Who did you have around to help you? neighbors- the kirbys and friends parents 3) What did you have to learn in order to get through this? cooking,cleaning,ask for help,who to talk to,life wont stop for anyone,deal with more than just mom(school,ballet,) 4) Did your full family know of the disease? Father knew but brothers did not know because they weren't home. Parents didn't tell them so they didn't worry. 5) Did this event change how you looked at the world? Yes was not as care free and easy. She became more cautious because she almost lost her mom. She was less care free and payed more attention to what could happen. 6) How did you cope with your mother in the hospital? Hospital didn't tell her what was going on and said everything was fine. She was fine on the outside,but on the inside she hurt from lack of knowledge. 7) Did you get to visit your mother in the hospital? Not very often. when she did her arm would be all black from internal bleeding. Mother almost died 3 times and had oxygen. Possibly a reason she went into health care. 8) How often was your mother in the hospital? Off and on for 3-4 months. Then had fequent trips to hospital but nothing was ever found. 9) What did the doctors say would happen to your mother? She was told not to do any house work or anything for seven years. 10) Did any of your brothers help with this problem? 2 brothers over sea (Eric and Niel, military) didn't know at all the whole time. One time she was home was a blizzard in milford, deleware. One side of house was snowed in brother david came home from college and shoveled to get dog out and cook for her. Dad was over seas during and got home on a firetruck and mom on police car.

Meisenhelter, Joshua. Personal Interview. 20 March 2011.