LemonMelon said:
Bring me up to speed, because I honestly haven't been paying attention...what, exactly, is wrong with your mother?
She has pancreatitis, has for about a year now. Came down with it the day I moved to Melbourne last year. As the removalists were taking the furniture out of my place in Brisbane, the paramedics were taking my mother out. She describes the pain of a pancreatitis attack as worse than childbirth. She had another serious attack of it in early February and was in hospital for the best part of a week. Yesterday she again went to hospital fearing another attack, but luckily it turns out that it was another issue, and after monitoring her for most of the day, the doctors decided that it should go away and hopefully won't require treatment.