My grandma is in the hospital...

[ManBearPig]

Second time shes been there in the last couple months, her blood pressure is really high. I guess they are going to give her a stent and some other surgery tomorrow (as well as another possible one in the next week or so). It sucks because shes my last remaining grandparent, and i hate going through this (third time (two grandpas before this)).

Any prayers (or whatever you guys do) would be appreciated, or not if you don't wanna. Just getting it off my mind while i study for stupid physics (which im probably gonna fail, ha)!

Anyone else have any similar stories?

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
Second time shes been there in the last couple months, her blood pressure is really high. I guess they are going to give her a stent and some other surgery tomorrow (as well as another possible one in the next week or so). It sucks because shes my last remaining grandparent, and i hate going through this (third time (two grandpas before this)).

Any prayers (or whatever you guys do) would be appreciated, or not if you don't wanna. Just getting it off my mind while i study for stupid physics (which im probably gonna fail, ha)!

Anyone else have any similar stories?

Just the bad ones. 🙁

Hang in there.

edit-stupid time warp.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

My grandma is like a third parent to me. She was around more than my parents because they had to work. Right now she has moderate Alzheimer's and is currently in the hospital with one failed kidney. She'll be alright, but it's pretty stressful to have her in there while having finals. Right now, just keep looking forward, man. Deal with your finals and don't let it effect you. She wouldn't want that. Once they're out of the way, go see her, deal with the emotional stress, etc. That's what I've always done. She's been in the hospital in and out all my life and each time it's something pretty significant. I don't know how she's still around.

 

[coldmeat]

I have a very similar story. I'm going through something very similar to you right now.

My grandmother (last living grandparent) was rushed to the hospital in the city because of what they thought was a blood clot in her leg. She left it too long. She felt a little pain in her leg for a few days but waited until she could get a doctors appointment. By the time she was brought the hospital her leg had basically died. Rigor mortis was already setting in, so they had to amputate it. Sometime that same day she had a heart attack. They discovered that her heart was simply too weak to pump her blood through her leg and that made the clot even worse. Because her leg was in such a bad condition it left toxins and bad chemicals in her body and her kidneys aren't able to filter them.

Over the last week she has been in the ICU under life support. They have every machine they could get working for her. She hasn't woken up since she got to the hospital and as far as I know, she isn't even aware that she had her leg amputated.

Things aren't looking good for her but her condition did get a little better yesterday/today. If she does survive or get off life support she has months of living in a hospital/rehabilitation ahead of her.

 

[CRXican]

my last grandparent, grandpa, passed away last week

lung cancer, he was in his mid-eightys, good, long life

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
Second time shes been there in the last couple months, her blood pressure is really high. I guess they are going to give her a stent and some other surgery tomorrow (as well as another possible one in the next week or so). It sucks because shes my last remaining grandparent, and i hate going through this (third time (two grandpas before this)).

Any prayers (or whatever you guys do) would be appreciated, or not if you don't wanna. Just getting it off my mind while i study for stupid physics (which im probably gonna fail, ha)!

Anyone else have any similar stories?

Make a cheat sheet with all the equations. I'll start it off, just to give you a hand.

F=MA

 

[biggestmuff]

Does she make good graham crackers and icing?

 

[dougp]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
Second time shes been there in the last couple months, her blood pressure is really high. I guess they are going to give her a stent and some other surgery tomorrow (as well as another possible one in the next week or so). It sucks because shes my last remaining grandparent, and i hate going through this (third time (two grandpas before this)).

Any prayers (or whatever you guys do) would be appreciated, or not if you don't wanna. Just getting it off my mind while i study for stupid physics (which im probably gonna fail, ha)!

Anyone else have any similar stories?

During Christmas weekend last year, my Grandma rear-ended someone in a supermarket parking lot. Thinking it was a tumor, my step-mom took her to the Dr. for an exam. Turns out she had two tumors in her brain, causing severe pressure. At the age of 82, with two golf ball sized tumors - there's not a lot you can do. She unfortunately passed at the beginning of May, but she spent the day with my step-mom and cousin going through family pictures and visiting - it was peaceful. She died the day after her would be 62nd wedding anniversary, and her husband passed in 2001 to cancer also.

It's a damn shame, this is the 4th grandparent that I've lost, and I have 6 grandparents left - and I'm close to 4 of them. You think it sucks losing 4, I'll be losing 10 eventually. Yay for divorced families 🙁

 

[1sikbITCH]

My grandparents died years ago. Now I'm having to contemplate my parents' approaching demise. Makes you appreciate every day you have with them.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: 1sikbITCH
My grandparents died years ago. Now I'm having to contemplate my parents' approaching demise. Makes you appreciate every day you have with them.

that is true. I cherish the brief time with my dad, and much more time with my mom.
Kazaam, I hope she is doing better.