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TERMS OF SERVICE For those of you that don't have or didn't happen to see my post on Facebook or Twitter; I'm NOT at home doing "self-care" as I'd planned.
I got a phone call from my grandmother, and my step-grandfather that's been in the nursing home for the past few years hasn't been doing too great the past few weeks. He's been bouncing in and out of the hospital with a recurring bout of pneumonia that just wouldn't be shaken. However, things have gotten drastically worse and he has since refused to eat or drink anything. As a result, he's been placed back in the nursing home and on hospice. I frantically flew home, no thanks to the great outage of Southwest that occurred yesterday, but thankfully Delta came to the rescue!! The hospice nurse gave him 24-48 hours, so I felt I couldn't wait for Southwest to straighten their difficulties out. We are just past the 72 hour mark but... we don't know how much longer he will hang on at this point. I'm helping my grandmother at this time, running errands for things and such, as well as helping take watch shifts so she can get rest. I've got somewhere between another 3-5 hours in this watch shift for tonight. Here's hoping I can swing it, and manage to get enough rest come morning that I can do this again tomorrow night for her. I think this is the first she's gotten more than an hour of sleep since last week sometime.
UPDATE
My step grandfather passed early yesterday morning; I'm very thankful I chose to stay up that night. I managed to catch the moment and wake her before he had passed so she could say her final farewells and hold his hand as he passed. Grandma is so very thankful that he passed so peacefully. It was so quick. I've never been present for anything like that before and I don't think my brain has fully processed it, but I don't know at this point. I wasn't really on yesterday because we had so many errands and things to tend to; the memorial service is going to be Sunday afternoon. Additionally, T-Mobile has no service this far out into the rural Midwest, so I had to get an ATT mobile hotspot so folks can get in touch with me about all the various things going on. (Grandma has no internet so that wasn't an option)
Grandma and I seem to be holding up so far, but I'm not sure that either of us have stopped moving and doing stuff long enough to really mentally process what has happened. I'll try to update as things go along.
I got a phone call from my grandmother, and my step-grandfather that's been in the nursing home for the past few years hasn't been doing too great the past few weeks. He's been bouncing in and out of the hospital with a recurring bout of pneumonia that just wouldn't be shaken. However, things have gotten drastically worse and he has since refused to eat or drink anything. As a result, he's been placed back in the nursing home and on hospice. I frantically flew home, no thanks to the great outage of Southwest that occurred yesterday, but thankfully Delta came to the rescue!! The hospice nurse gave him 24-48 hours, so I felt I couldn't wait for Southwest to straighten their difficulties out. We are just past the 72 hour mark but... we don't know how much longer he will hang on at this point. I'm helping my grandmother at this time, running errands for things and such, as well as helping take watch shifts so she can get rest. I've got somewhere between another 3-5 hours in this watch shift for tonight. Here's hoping I can swing it, and manage to get enough rest come morning that I can do this again tomorrow night for her. I think this is the first she's gotten more than an hour of sleep since last week sometime.
UPDATE
My step grandfather passed early yesterday morning; I'm very thankful I chose to stay up that night. I managed to catch the moment and wake her before he had passed so she could say her final farewells and hold his hand as he passed. Grandma is so very thankful that he passed so peacefully. It was so quick. I've never been present for anything like that before and I don't think my brain has fully processed it, but I don't know at this point. I wasn't really on yesterday because we had so many errands and things to tend to; the memorial service is going to be Sunday afternoon. Additionally, T-Mobile has no service this far out into the rural Midwest, so I had to get an ATT mobile hotspot so folks can get in touch with me about all the various things going on. (Grandma has no internet so that wasn't an option)
Grandma and I seem to be holding up so far, but I'm not sure that either of us have stopped moving and doing stuff long enough to really mentally process what has happened. I'll try to update as things go along.
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techwolf
~techwolf
That's really rough to do, I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. My condolences to you and your grandmother. It's great you're able to be there for them in his final hours, and for your grandmother as she deals with the grief of watching a loved one slip into the eternal rest. Good luck on holding out for a few more hours, it's rough but hang in there.
Lauvtrekin
~lauvtrekin
Stay strong and do rest when you can. Sending our love.
KodaKrome
~kodakrome
Sorry to hear, glad it was peaceful and he didn't suffer.
