Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hard Times
The past two nights Mom, Dad & I have been having the talks that you never want to have. Grandma is not doing well at all. Her heart keeps going into Afib and they have her on a bunch of different medicine to keep her heart rate down and to control her thyroid. This isn't sitting well with her, Grandma has always hated to take medicine of any kind for any reason. She has already said that she would take it in the hospital because she HAS TO, but that she wouldn't take it when she gets out. Well with out the medicine she will not live long becaue her heart will just stop and she has a DNR order. Also she has not eaten for the past two days because it is hard for her to swallow. They found a noduel on her thyroid, which could be nothing or as bad a cancer, but they aren't going to test it because at her age they aren't going to do anything about it anyway. At this point when she gets out of the hospital she will have to go to a nursing home/rehab center because right now she is so weak that she can't even get to the bathroom by herself. I know she won't like that, but there is no way that we can care for all of her needs at home.Right now Grandma does not want to take her medicine, she does not want to eat and she asked that we not prolong this for her. She hates having to be taken care of and doesn't like seeing how much stress caring for her causes Mom. My gut feeling is that we won't have her much longer. It breaks my heart, but I don't want her to suffer either. It is a very hard time right now.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Health Update
I don't know if anyone even stops by here, but this is more for me anyway. This is a journal entry for what is going on right now.
Grandma is still in the hospital. With the exception of this past Tuesday when she was home, she has been in the hospital or hospital rehab for a month now. She is doing better, but is still not doing well. They diagnosed her with a hyper thyroid, for those of you who aren't up on your medical jargon that mean it works too much, and that is causing her to have issues with her heart. Twice now she has gone into an afib rhythm and once her pulse got up to over 180 on Thursday night. They are trying to adjust her medication for the heart and thyroid now to find the correct levels. We are hoping that she will get out sometime this next week. We thought it might be as early as Monday but she went into afib again tonight and we want them to keep her until we are sure that is resolved.
If we didn't have enough going on with Grandma, Dad had a stomach virus all day yesterday. I made sure that I stayed as far away from him as I could get. He is doing much better today though. Thankfully he only had a 24 hour bug.
Mom is staying at the hospital with Grandma. She is worn out and just getting over a bad case of bronchitis from getting so warn out the last time she had to camp out with Grandma. She seems to be doing ok now, but she is really worn out. Between work and everything with Grandma she hasn't had a break since Thanksgiving. I'm doing my best to help her, but I don't do the medical stuff and the doctors come in early when I'm working.
As for me, I'm working still as a sub everyday and then going to the hospital after I get off of work. I'm doing ok, thank goodness I haven't gotten sick also, however like everyone else I'm worried about Grandma and don't feel quite up to norm.
Have a good weekend!!
Steph
Grandma is still in the hospital. With the exception of this past Tuesday when she was home, she has been in the hospital or hospital rehab for a month now. She is doing better, but is still not doing well. They diagnosed her with a hyper thyroid, for those of you who aren't up on your medical jargon that mean it works too much, and that is causing her to have issues with her heart. Twice now she has gone into an afib rhythm and once her pulse got up to over 180 on Thursday night. They are trying to adjust her medication for the heart and thyroid now to find the correct levels. We are hoping that she will get out sometime this next week. We thought it might be as early as Monday but she went into afib again tonight and we want them to keep her until we are sure that is resolved.
If we didn't have enough going on with Grandma, Dad had a stomach virus all day yesterday. I made sure that I stayed as far away from him as I could get. He is doing much better today though. Thankfully he only had a 24 hour bug.
Mom is staying at the hospital with Grandma. She is worn out and just getting over a bad case of bronchitis from getting so warn out the last time she had to camp out with Grandma. She seems to be doing ok now, but she is really worn out. Between work and everything with Grandma she hasn't had a break since Thanksgiving. I'm doing my best to help her, but I don't do the medical stuff and the doctors come in early when I'm working.
As for me, I'm working still as a sub everyday and then going to the hospital after I get off of work. I'm doing ok, thank goodness I haven't gotten sick also, however like everyone else I'm worried about Grandma and don't feel quite up to norm.
Have a good weekend!!
Steph
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