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Grandmother is Not Well
8 years ago
SA-X, Walkerfire, Sammonaran, Raiok, Ashanriu, Wasdramer, Zyraph. Too many names. X3
So, I've been a bit silent on here, and the main reason for that is because my grandmother has been in the hospital. It all started when she went in for a doctor's appointment like a month or so ago, and they found out she had less than half the blood most people are supposed to have, so they gave her a blood transfusion. She was also due for a colonoscopy, which came back fine, but things still were not right since they didn't know where she lost so much blood.
In the last two weeks, she's been diagnosed with diastolic congestive heart failure, and she has swollen feet, they put her on a saline drip yesterday (her blood sodium was low), and they've detected what is extremely likely to be ovarian cancer (stage 3). I'll be hearing that diagnosis today, but they are extremely sure that is what it is because they said it matches extremely well with the patterns for it.
I've had a lot on my mind, dealing with all of this. This comes a few years after my aunt died from brain cancer, so this has not been fun. I'm actually holding up better than most of my family about this news, surprisingly. My mom is hysterical, my brothers are not able to really handle it at all, and my grandmother...let's just say she's definitely a fighter, but she's almost 80, so I'm not sure how well she'll be able to handle things.
Additionally, we've been trying to sell her home, which has almost 12 acres of land attached to it. Some people were interested, but not many want to take on that much land, plus my grandmother doesn't know how to make a "reasonable offer" so my mom has been trying to get her to lower it. On top of that, we need to get rid of the house because the property taxes are too high for someone who only gets social security checks.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do...I don't know how my family will work through this...but I do hope we can figure something out because I'm already worried about the money for medication (her insurance won't cover it because she never got that part in the first place) so...I really have no clue.
Thanks for bearing with me...I had to let this out somehow, I had intended to write this journal sooner but I couldn't bring myself to do so.
In the last two weeks, she's been diagnosed with diastolic congestive heart failure, and she has swollen feet, they put her on a saline drip yesterday (her blood sodium was low), and they've detected what is extremely likely to be ovarian cancer (stage 3). I'll be hearing that diagnosis today, but they are extremely sure that is what it is because they said it matches extremely well with the patterns for it.
I've had a lot on my mind, dealing with all of this. This comes a few years after my aunt died from brain cancer, so this has not been fun. I'm actually holding up better than most of my family about this news, surprisingly. My mom is hysterical, my brothers are not able to really handle it at all, and my grandmother...let's just say she's definitely a fighter, but she's almost 80, so I'm not sure how well she'll be able to handle things.
Additionally, we've been trying to sell her home, which has almost 12 acres of land attached to it. Some people were interested, but not many want to take on that much land, plus my grandmother doesn't know how to make a "reasonable offer" so my mom has been trying to get her to lower it. On top of that, we need to get rid of the house because the property taxes are too high for someone who only gets social security checks.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do...I don't know how my family will work through this...but I do hope we can figure something out because I'm already worried about the money for medication (her insurance won't cover it because she never got that part in the first place) so...I really have no clue.
Thanks for bearing with me...I had to let this out somehow, I had intended to write this journal sooner but I couldn't bring myself to do so.
I hope you all can figure out how to get through this...
I'm hoping so too...I really have no idea how this is going to work, heh
Applying for grace or getting it written off would require a statement of assets, and the hospital would go after that.
I hope something works out. Perhaps check with local groups, religious or not, if they know of assistance programs. AARP might be a good one to contact.
I'll try to see what I can do on that, but that won't be until next week. That will be the next time I'm actually over there.