Family Crisis - Seeing it Through

My husband is currently recovering from emergency brain surgery. He started getting sick about two weeks ago. I called him on a Thursday to tell him that I was on my way home from work and he told me that he wasn't feeling well. I knew then he was really sick because he never tells me when he's not feeling well. That night he asked me to stay home with him and take him to the doctor the following morning. By this time I knew it was serious. I took him to the doctor and the doctor diagnosed him with Vertigo. Gave him a couple of perscriptions and sent him on his way. As the weekend progressed he got worse. I called his doctor on Saturday and he brushed me off as being a paranoid wife. I ignored him and called back on Monday because by this time he was vomiting up black liquid. I rushed him to the hospital Monday morning only to find out that they found nothing wrong with him and couldn't explain where the pain in his head and the severe dizziness was coming from. Finally with the help of the good Lord a neurologist took a second look at the CT scan they took of him in the emergency room, which the radiologist told us was fine, and found that my husband had a large amount of fluid on his brain. You can only imagine what I went through and then I had to call his mother and father and tell them about the news. This was Tuesday night. He sat in the hospital for over 24 hours suffering for longer than he needed because the radiologist diagnosed him wrong. Thank God for the neurologist. By Wednesday morning he was in so much pain that he wanted to just rip his own head off his shoulders. This was a trial for me to go through because we have no family here in Georgia and I have an 8 and a 4 year old to care for and take back and forth to school. Mind you I'm a student as well as a full time accountant/human resource manager. No one in my family could get down here but his mother got on a plane and made it here in two days and his cousins were here by the weekend. I was so happy to see family. For a week I was alone. I had the Lord yes, but I really enjoyed having the family around. He is finally home and now I have to pick up where I left off with work, school, and home. It is not an easy task but I'll get through.