I just hung up the phone with my older sister. They were able to do the scope on my Mom this morning. They found two huge bleeding ulcers and one that hadn't busted open yet. They were able to carterize them. They're giving her medicine to help speed up the healing process. That part is a relief, at least.

They also had to tell us that she had also experienced a "mild" heat-attack. At least it was mild. The sad truth to all of this is that my Mother will have to do a complete life style change. She's a registerd nurse...She should know this already.

We're going to have to hide the ciggarettes, motrin (it can cause bleeding ulcers if you are taking it daily as my mother was {actually she was eating them like candy...not good}), she is going to have to stop drinking her diet pop and start drinking water and juice, she's also going to have to start exercising (something that my family seems to find distasteful {I rather enjoy it}), NO MORE ASPRIN (she's already on a blood thinner that her doctor prescribed...she does NOT need it will everything else she's taking), she's going to have to eat better, and probably get an easier job.

She's used guilt trips on us our intire lives and we've all decided that it's going to take the same to get her to conform to the doctor's requests. It's like she wanted to die...She's a nurse, she knows better and she'd beat the crap out of us if one of us had done this to ourselves.