Friday:
Started off the morning with spin class at 6:00 a.m. - ugly
Got to leave work at 10:00 a.m. to get John from airport - good
My Gramma got put back in the hospital - bad
Saturday:
Mailed off my fees for my 10 year reunion! -good
Joe's Welcome Home Party! Terry got Sonny's BBQ and about 40 people came! It was tons of fun! There was also some mosquito killing, fishing and potato gun shooting! - good
Yum!
John and a fish!
Mosquito killer!
Picture of the smoker!
John's cousin Declan with a catfish - ugly (the catfish, not Declan)
Declan and a catfish!
John and the potato gun!
Me shooting the potato gun!
Sunday:
Got an early (8:00 a.m.) call from Teresa, saying that my Mom had gotten a call that my Gramma wasn't responding and she need to come to the hospital right away.
I got up and ready to go to the hospital myself and meet everyone there (I was thinking the worst). Once I got out of the shower, Teresa called to tell me Gramma was okay. Apparently the nurses tried to shake and pinch Gramma's fingernails, trying to get her to wake up but Gramma wouldn't wake up. Once my Mom got there, she walked in the room, and said "Momma" really loud and she opened her eyes.
I was on my way to the hospital when John found out that his Great Uncle Don (who was in town from California for the party) was taken to the hospital! He had pneumonia, and was put in a room only 4 doors down from my Gramma.
Whole hospital experience - bad
For dinner, we had a crawfish boil! This was John's dad first time to cook crawfish, but he had a friends secret family recipe. It turned out so good! He put potatoes, corn on the cob, mushrooms, and deer sausage in with the crawfish. - good
Crawfish!
While the crawfish were being fixed, a few of them got played with. They tried to get them to duel, it didn't really work. They also taught one of them to wave. - ugly (the crawfish) (this was also pretty funny)
Crawfish!
The taught him to wave "Hi"
Playing with our food, attack of the claw!
(this is Dan, Declan's dad)
Also ugly, the mosquitoes. They were not a problem until we lit the citronella candles. Within 3 minutes, I think I got about 15 bites! I was indoors the rest of the night.- ugly
As we were eating we were throwing the crawfish leftovers into the Rez. This is what we attracted...
Alligator!!!
Monday:
This was a really bad but good morning for my Gramma, they took a chest x-ray, only to discovered that she had about a quart and a half of fluid in one of her lungs. So a little after midnight, they drained it off.
This was good and bad... bad they had to do the procedure, but good because it made it easier for her to breath. Breathing is good! Another thing that was suggested by the doctors was to start Dialysis. Which my Gramma said no to. The family was divided on this, some were with her, while others are trying to talk her into doing it.
I had lunch at Terry's house and John and his brother's went on a little kayak ride before John had to leave. - good
Joe, Dan, and John!
Sad - John flew back to Ok City.
After dropping John off at the airport, I headed back to the hospital. I ended up staying until almost 10:00 p.m. It was a pretty stressful hospital visit. We had some cousins come into town from French Camp, MS to visit with Gramma. -good
After they left; me, Teresa, and my Aunt Betty, had really wanted to talk with her doctor, to see what her options really were. He said Dialysis was basically her last option. He did make is sound better then when my idea of Dialysis was. So my aunt suggested we go into my Gramma's room with the doctor and discuss her options again. It made me a little uncomfortable, it was basically an intervention. In the end she agreed to give it a try for a couple of weeks.
They decided they would start tomorrow. Putting in the port in first thing tomorrow morning and then starting her first treatment. We'll see how it goes.
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