I had lost touch with a good girl-friend of mine, her brother found me on line and gave me her number. We started talking again and I drove up to see her and her kids.(about 100 miles one way) We had a great time, and I told her when it got warmer she could come down here and we would cook out and swim in the pool with the kids. We talked on the phone more, but then my mom got sicker and I had not called in a few weeks....
Her brother called me yesterday and told me if I wanted to see her one last time to drive up there and he would meet me at the ICU. I was floored.
On Saturday, Nikki mixed up some of her medication and over dosed. She went into a coma, and her kidneys have shut down. They have done brain scans and there is not brain activity....
I drove up there. OMG She is hooked up to all kinds of machines keeping her alive. They let me go in and see her. I wanted to scream...I wanted to cry..BUT I held it together and just talked to her.
Her brother has told me they are getting the family together today and they are going to pull the plug. Her, I think it is called "living will" says not to let her stay in a state like that. They are going to honer her wishes after the out of state family gets there today.
I am beside myself. Nikki is a year younger than me. She had-had a car wreck and she was in pain. That is how she mixed up her pills. She had-had a cold, and she was tired and confused about what she had taken or not taken. NO-ONE thinks she tried to kill herself.
OMG Nikki is only 37...OMG her kids are going to live with her bestfriend Leslie. Leslie is a very wonderful person. Leslie is going to Court in an hour to get custody of the children, the remaining family is going with her to tell the court it is okay with them.
BY-the-way their father was killed in the war, and Nikki's mom and Dad have already passed away. I am so pleased Leslie is going to take the kids. Most of Nikki's family lives out of state and her brother that called me is disabled because he was hurt in the same car wreck Nikki was in. He can hardly walk.
So I am sorry if I am a grumpy ass. My mom is sickly and I know Nikki is going to die soon, unless when they pull the plug she wakes-up. I know there is little chance of that; but stranger things have happened.
