Rasha
08-18-2005, 10:16 AM
I was hoping some of you could include my grandparents in your thoughts and prayers. I'm not much of a prayer person but to know someone else out besides my family are praying for them would be comforting for me.
My grandfather is 93 yrs young and he and my 90 yr young grandmother just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary together this past June. They are the cutest most adorable grandparents ever. Even all my friends comment on how they wish they were their grandparents. No one ever thinks that they're as old as they are because they're always traveling somewhere or doing something. I think it's what kept them so young. My grandfather was a worker for MA Bell when it first came into existance. He's the kind of guy who seems to know everything. Bring him a plant he can tell you what kind it is, where it grows, when it blooms, etc. He loves to tell stories and everyone's just in love with the both of them.
About a month ago, my grandfather fell in the middle of the night on a trip to the bathroom. My parents took him to the hospital but luckily there were no breaks or cracks in anybones. Less than a week later he had a hemmoratic stroke. A blood clot deep in the brain that they can't do anything out. His speech is slightly garbled but gets better as the day progresses. He can move his legs but can no longer stand up on his own. We were glad there seemed to be no serious side effects from the stroke. They moved him to a nursing home for rehabilitation and found he had a staph infection that we had thought had been cleared up. he was in isolation for a couple of weeks and then it cleared up. He wasn't making progress with walking again so he was set to come home this sunday where my family would take care of him..but on monday he was admitted back into the hospital with congestive heart failure. He was in a coma like state but has come out of that and is smiling and talking again..but the doctors don't think he has much more time with us.
I personally feel guilty because I haven't been to visit him very often since he's been sick. I was down last weekend but again wasn't able to spend a lot of time with him. We had gone there to pick up my grandmother and I showed him pictures of my new house and tried to talk to him..but honestly it was really hard for me. He wasn't the man he had been and i left with tears in my eyes. My mother told me two days later that he had been so happy to see me and it made me feel even worse that I hadn't been there more often...
sigh..anyhow my mom said he seems to be doing a little better but I know in my heart that it wont be much longer..and when he does go..I just don't see my grandmother being able to stay with us much longer..how do you live without someone you've been with for 70 years? I had all these hopes and dreams of them being at my wedding and seeing my children but unfortunately I dont think that's going to be possible.
anyhow, thank you for taking the time to read the post and if you could just include them in your thoughts or daily prayers it would mean a lot to me and my family.
I'm including some pictures just because...
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My grandfather is 93 yrs young and he and my 90 yr young grandmother just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary together this past June. They are the cutest most adorable grandparents ever. Even all my friends comment on how they wish they were their grandparents. No one ever thinks that they're as old as they are because they're always traveling somewhere or doing something. I think it's what kept them so young. My grandfather was a worker for MA Bell when it first came into existance. He's the kind of guy who seems to know everything. Bring him a plant he can tell you what kind it is, where it grows, when it blooms, etc. He loves to tell stories and everyone's just in love with the both of them.
About a month ago, my grandfather fell in the middle of the night on a trip to the bathroom. My parents took him to the hospital but luckily there were no breaks or cracks in anybones. Less than a week later he had a hemmoratic stroke. A blood clot deep in the brain that they can't do anything out. His speech is slightly garbled but gets better as the day progresses. He can move his legs but can no longer stand up on his own. We were glad there seemed to be no serious side effects from the stroke. They moved him to a nursing home for rehabilitation and found he had a staph infection that we had thought had been cleared up. he was in isolation for a couple of weeks and then it cleared up. He wasn't making progress with walking again so he was set to come home this sunday where my family would take care of him..but on monday he was admitted back into the hospital with congestive heart failure. He was in a coma like state but has come out of that and is smiling and talking again..but the doctors don't think he has much more time with us.
I personally feel guilty because I haven't been to visit him very often since he's been sick. I was down last weekend but again wasn't able to spend a lot of time with him. We had gone there to pick up my grandmother and I showed him pictures of my new house and tried to talk to him..but honestly it was really hard for me. He wasn't the man he had been and i left with tears in my eyes. My mother told me two days later that he had been so happy to see me and it made me feel even worse that I hadn't been there more often...
sigh..anyhow my mom said he seems to be doing a little better but I know in my heart that it wont be much longer..and when he does go..I just don't see my grandmother being able to stay with us much longer..how do you live without someone you've been with for 70 years? I had all these hopes and dreams of them being at my wedding and seeing my children but unfortunately I dont think that's going to be possible.
anyhow, thank you for taking the time to read the post and if you could just include them in your thoughts or daily prayers it would mean a lot to me and my family.
I'm including some pictures just because...
http://tinypic.com/aoux4o.jpg
http://tinypic.com/aovslw.jpg
http://tinypic.com/aovtkp.jpg