Monday, May 14, 2007
Grams Update
What a weekend from hell! My gram ended up having the surgery on Friday. They went in through her groin and placed the device to keep the blood clots from going to her heart. Unfortunately I did not even know that she was having the surgery. My brother told me about it when he called Friday afternoon. I was pretty upset that no one had called me until I found out that my gram had told them not to. She said that I had enough to worry about with Kotah having her surgery that day,too. Typical gram! Anyway,my uncle called me a short time later and said that she was doing ok. She was a little groggy from the surgery so I told him that I would call her a little later in the evening so that she could get some rest.
I had to take Shaelyn for her softball pix so I called gram when I got home sometime after 8 pm. My aunt answered the phone and I asked how she was doing. Her response to me was "not good". That was the last thing I expected or had wanted to hear. She said that she had some complications from the surgery. She couldn't talk well at all and she was in an extreme amount of pain. I made my aunt put the phone up to her ear so that I could talk to her. I was so scared that that would be the last time that I would get to talk to her.
My uncle called me a short itme later and explained what had happened. He left the hospital a little before 3 pm so that both he and my gram could get some rest. He wasn't gone 15 minutes and my gram was in intense pain. The nurse came in to check on her and she had a softball sized pool of blood at her incision site. She was bleeding internally. They had 4 nurses,3 drs and a few orderlies in there working on her. They had to push the blood from her leg. That was excrutiatingly painful. They worked on her for 45 minutes and it was touch and go for a while. They had to give her a bag of blood because she had lost so much.
I have never cried so much or so hard in my entire life. I gave myself a migraine. I honestly thought that she wasn't going to make it and I hated myself because I couldn't be there. I prayed all nite long. I didn't know what else to do. I felt useless. I am always the one that takes care of my gram and I couldn't do anything.
My uncle stayed the nite with her and I just sat waiting for the phone to ring. Thank God that it didn't. She put in an awful nite but she was doing better in the morning. My mom watched the kids for me so that I could go up to see her. When I got to her room I was surprised to see her sitting in a chair. She had done a complete turn around from the day before. I guess God was listening. I stayed with her for over 5 hours. I didn't want to leave but I could tell that she was getting tired. I waited until the nurses put her back in her bed before I left.
The drs had her up walking yesterday. It was only to the hallway but that's something. She probably won't leave the hospital until Wednesday at the earliest. And they may send her to rehab for a few days. I am so thankful that she is doing so much better.
Thank you so much to all of you who put in some prayers for her. My whole family is very grateful.
p.s. Her test results indicated that she had 2 very large blood clots in her lungs as well as a bunch of them in her leg. She is also now a diabetic. She is on blood thinners to help dissolve the clots but she could still use your prayers.Labels: family
