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Got the call last night, my grandmother, who is in a nursing home has gone unresponsive. She hasn't been doing very well the past couple weeks or so, and my mom said its probably only a matter of time, but I guess I thought it wouldn't happen so fast. About a week ago she went into the hospital, because she essentially lost all circulation in one leg, and they were talking about amputing above the knee, but because of her age (91), and condition (congestive heart failure - which I just found out about) they felt she wouldn't make it through the surgery.
I did go visit her in the hospital the last day she was there and back at the nursing home that afternoon when they released her back there. For someone who also has Alzheimers, she was probably the most lucid and talkactive I've seen her in years. Her short term and long term seemed intact, which was really a surprise, considering the last conversation I had with her, she pretty much gets stuck in repeat and it makes for a very long conversation. I guess thats why I thought she might make it a little longer. The last thing I told her besides that I loved her was that I'd bring my kids with me the next time I came to see her. That was going to be this weekend, but not anymore.
Hospice has been called in now to make her "comfortable", whatever that means. Apparantly she was been thrashing about, breathing heavily, and basically injuring herself during this unresponsive time. Whatever they are doing is supposed to stop this, until the inevitable happens.
If your of the same mind, please say a little something in prayer or what have you, that her time left here will be pain free. Thats all I hope for at this point now. Thanks for reading.
I did go visit her in the hospital the last day she was there and back at the nursing home that afternoon when they released her back there. For someone who also has Alzheimers, she was probably the most lucid and talkactive I've seen her in years. Her short term and long term seemed intact, which was really a surprise, considering the last conversation I had with her, she pretty much gets stuck in repeat and it makes for a very long conversation. I guess thats why I thought she might make it a little longer. The last thing I told her besides that I loved her was that I'd bring my kids with me the next time I came to see her. That was going to be this weekend, but not anymore.
Hospice has been called in now to make her "comfortable", whatever that means. Apparantly she was been thrashing about, breathing heavily, and basically injuring herself during this unresponsive time. Whatever they are doing is supposed to stop this, until the inevitable happens.
If your of the same mind, please say a little something in prayer or what have you, that her time left here will be pain free. Thats all I hope for at this point now. Thanks for reading.
