Grandmother had stroke...

[ni4ni]

Sorry about the long post, but you guys are cheaper than a therapist!

My 89 year old grandmother (who raised me since I was 2 years old) has always been in good health, other than osteoarthritis. She has had a shoulder replacement, two hip surgeries, screws placed in her ankle, back surgery, knee surgery, and some more I can not remember.) About ten years ago, she had breast cancer. She has a mascetomy and that was it. Cancer gone. She is very tough and has been through a lot!
On Tuesday she was acting a little strange. She just seemed very tired. We assumed that Christmas had worn her out. She told my aunt on several occasions that she was going to die and she didn?t want us to be upset. My aunt asked how she knew she was going to die and she said Jesus told her.

On Wednesday my aunt work her up in the morning for her medicine. She took them and went back to bed. I woke her up at noon. She couldn't sit up on her own. She was leaning to the right, but didn't seem to notice. She was saying some pretty weird stuff. I immediately though stroke and called one of the doctors at the hospital I work at. He said to bring her in.

Turns out I was right. She had a stoke, unknown when. It has severely affected her. She has some paralysis on her left side but she doesn?t realize it is there. Not sure what we are going to do. She is home as she didn't want to go to any facilities.

If you are religious, pray for us. If not, keep us in your thoughts.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

hang in there man. i'm very close to my grandmothers too. I will keep you in my thoughts.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: ni4ni
Sorry about the long post, but you guys are cheaper than a therapist!

My 89 year old grandmother (who raised me since I was 2 years old) has always been in good health, other than osteoarthritis. She has had a shoulder replacement, two hip surgeries, screws placed in her ankle, back surgery, knee surgery, and some more I can not remember.) About ten years ago, she had breast cancer. She has a mascetomy and that was it. Cancer gone. She is very tough and has been through a lot!
On Tuesday she was acting a little strange. She just seemed very tired. We assumed that Christmas had worn her out. She told my aunt on several occasions that she was going to die and she didn?t want us to be upset. My aunt asked how she knew she was going to die and she said Jesus told her.

On Wednesday my aunt work her up in the morning for her medicine. She took them and went back to bed. I woke her up at noon. She couldn't sit up on her own. She was leaning to the right, but didn't seem to notice. She was saying some pretty weird stuff. I immediately though stroke and called one of the doctors at the hospital I work at. He said to bring her in.

Turns out I was right. She had a stoke, unknown when. It has severely affected her. She has some paralysis on her left side but she doesn?t realize it is there. Not sure what we are going to do. She is home as she didn't want to go to any facilities.

If you are religious, pray for us. If not, keep us in your thoughts.

you're in my prayers. I'm glad she's lived this long at least, you've gotten to have her in your life thus far and hopefully will continue to as well

 

[Jinru]

Originally posted by: ni4ni
Sorry about the long post, but you guys are cheaper than a therapist!

My 89 year old grandmother (who raised me since I was 2 years old) has always been in good health, other than osteoarthritis. She has had a shoulder replacement, two hip surgeries, screws placed in her ankle, back surgery, knee surgery, and some more I can not remember.) About ten years ago, she had breast cancer. She has a mascetomy and that was it. Cancer gone. She is very tough and has been through a lot!
On Tuesday she was acting a little strange. She just seemed very tired. We assumed that Christmas had worn her out. She told my aunt on several occasions that she was going to die and she didn?t want us to be upset. My aunt asked how she knew she was going to die and she said Jesus told her.

On Wednesday my aunt work her up in the morning for her medicine. She took them and went back to bed. I woke her up at noon. She couldn't sit up on her own. She was leaning to the right, but didn't seem to notice. She was saying some pretty weird stuff. I immediately though stroke and called one of the doctors at the hospital I work at. He said to bring her in.

Turns out I was right. She had a stoke, unknown when. It has severely affected her. She has some paralysis on her left side but she doesn?t realize it is there. Not sure what we are going to do. She is home as she didn't want to go to any facilities.

If you are religious, pray for us. If not, keep us in your thoughts.

Sorry to hear ni4ni, a similar thing happened to my grandpa last night too. He was placed in the hospital 2 days ago after our family doctor told him his severe stomach problems had to be checked out right away. He hasn't been able to swallow any food and would moan throughout the day from the pain in his stomach. Doctors thought the cancer he had a couple years ago must've came back but lab results show it's likely a inflammation of the gallbladder.

Just last night around 2am when my grandma was staying with him, he started getting seriously hot, then freezing cold, cold to the point where his whole body was shaking profusely. When a nurse came in to check, his pulse had stopped. 15 minutes later he suddenly comes back to life and is saying hes back from the afterlife, nurses are forced to hold him down from his wriggling. Our family doctor rushes over when he hears and tells my grandma how lucky my grampa is, his body heat was high enough to the point where is was affecting the brain and could've paralyzed him or killed him if he hadn't of been in the hospital.

Sorry to highjack the thread

Really hope your grandmother makes it out ok, OP .

 

[Brainonska511]

I know how you feel. My grandmother was just admitted into the hospital for circulation issues with her legs. If she can't get a bypass (due to the lack of good veins), I don't know what they'll do .

Best of luck to you and your family.

 

[iliopsoas]

I wish your grandmother and your family well. My grandmother is 94 and she's been declining rapidly too.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: ni4ni
Sorry about the long post, but you guys are cheaper than a therapist!

My 89 year old grandmother (who raised me since I was 2 years old) has always been in good health, other than osteoarthritis. She has had a shoulder replacement, two hip surgeries, screws placed in her ankle, back surgery, knee surgery, and some more I can not remember.) About ten years ago, she had breast cancer. She has a mascetomy and that was it. Cancer gone. She is very tough and has been through a lot!
On Tuesday she was acting a little strange. She just seemed very tired. We assumed that Christmas had worn her out. She told my aunt on several occasions that she was going to die and she didn?t want us to be upset. My aunt asked how she knew she was going to die and she said Jesus told her.

On Wednesday my aunt work her up in the morning for her medicine. She took them and went back to bed. I woke her up at noon. She couldn't sit up on her own. She was leaning to the right, but didn't seem to notice. She was saying some pretty weird stuff. I immediately though stroke and called one of the doctors at the hospital I work at. He said to bring her in.

Turns out I was right. She had a stoke, unknown when. It has severely affected her. She has some paralysis on her left side but she doesn?t realize it is there. Not sure what we are going to do. She is home as she didn't want to go to any facilities.

If you are religious, pray for us. If not, keep us in your thoughts.

I hope Grandma went to the hospital since you've posted this.

 

[Siddhartha]

Hopefully I did not read the OP corectly. You did not take her to the hospital? Immediate care can limit the serverity, damage of a stoke.

Lack of treatment can be fatal!

TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL!!

 

[AlienCraft]

Hang in there , dude.
It's all a part of that journey we call "life".
The alternative isn't as "exciting".

 

[cjmtfd102401]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Hopefully I did not read the OP corectly. You did not take her to the hospital? Immediate care can limit the serverity, damage of a stoke.

Lack of treatment can be fatal!

TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL!!

He did take her to the hospital. She was admitted wednesday, when all this happened. She got out friday.