Hi Rhonda,
I agree with you.  They need to know so that they can treat her
properly.  The family needs to decide which they want more, to be mad at
you or your mother dead.  Also, if child protective services steps in, it
may be fore the best for those two girls.  Your mother may end up getting
the help that she needs so that she can care  for them properly as
well.  If there's one thing that I am learning loud and clear from all that
has been going on in my family with Chris, it is this, silence is your
worst enemy.  You can't get help until you ask and you can't get prayer
until others know.
         God bless you Rhonda.  I know that you are facing a very tough
situation.  I pray that your mother will recover because of your care and
that your family will learn that silence isn't always as golden as we would
wish.
Kathy

At 09:39 PM 12/27/2004, you wrote:
>My mother is in the hospital in icu,  they say she has pneumonia, she has a
>tube down her throat helping her breathe.
>She doesn't seem to be doing very well.
>The problem I have is this, my mom has a drug problem, she abuses prescribed
>drugs, pain medications, nerve pills.  She often takes too many of these and
>is groggy and sleeps a lot.
>So now that she  is in the hospital because my dad couldn't get her to wake
>up, he isn't telling the doctors about all the medications she is taking! my
>parents have custody of my sisters girls who are 15 and 12, so they fear
>telling the hospital all the medicines worrying about what family services
>will think.  My position is that if my mother is to receive the care she
>needs, the doctors need to know everything.
>My dad says they will find it all out through blood tests, I fear they do
>not know everything and so could be giving her medication she does not need.
>The doctor came in this evening and said she had a massive heartattack,
>so I am inclined to tell the doctors the truth, and who ever wants too can
>be angry, what do you all think?
>
>Rhonda