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BuffyBoarding · July 2009

This vent is going to be really random and me just getting everything off my mind. Most of it probably won't make sense to most people, which is ohkay because well it doesn't have to. i just need somewhere to get it all out before i go and talk to certain people. So my grandmother is getting really bad in her health, she lives in the same town as i do so i get to see her often. Well yesterday i came out to her house because i was going to help her babysit three of her grandchildren. (A two year old and two infant girls) My grandmother is really small and weighs a total of 80 pounds. She has all kinds of health problems, but can get around most days. Well yesterday she looked bad when i came in but she was in bed so it seemed ohkay. She got up to go into the bathroom and wash her face, about five minutes later she walked into the bedroom and laid her head on the bed because she said she thought that she was going to faint. She had fainted 3 times before i got there at 7 am and refused to tell anyone. She doesn't want to put a "burden" on anyone so she keeps everything to herself. So i decided that last night i would stay the night at her house. Just in case, my mom and i warned a friend that is staying across the street that i might need him if anything happened to her... So everything was fine last night, i sat outside with my friend for quite awhile and she was fine. Well this morming at 4am my phone was going off so i woke up just in time to hear her scream. (She's lost most of her voice so it's kinda like a squeak) I asked if she was ohkay because i didn't know where she was, she had collapsed between the bedroom and living room. I was scared she'd broken something because her bones are so brittle. I go to call my friend and he left last night and went to stay in the next town. So i call my parents to come help me. Even though she's really light, im scared of hurting her and she kept trying to get up, throwing a fit not to call my mom. She didn't want them getting up to come help her. She's the kind of person that would not want to inconvenience "Life Allert" so she would lay on the floor bleeding. Needless to say, we're taking her to the doctor in a couple hours when they open and hopefully we can figure out what's going on. Her heart is racing and her pulse is all wrong. but yet she still doesn't want to go to the doctor so it's going to be a fight. We're pretty sure that the doctor is going to want to put her into the hospital because of how bad off she is right now. She can barely walk and just looks pityfull. I really wish there was something i could do, but there's not a whole lot anyone can do i guess. I'll have updates on her when we get back from the hospital. -buffy

Pepper97 · July 2009

Aww, I'm so sorry buffeh. The best thing you can do is start to seperate. I know it's a terrible thing to say, but it's best for you. It sounds like she's suffering, and she most likely will WANT to go inside, but she won't tell anyone. I had this happen when I was two. It was my great-grandmother. She had cancer because people at her work would smoke all day, she was there for 20 years. It was hard, but my mom started to seperate us once we found out she had cancer. It was the best thing for me.

BuffyBoarding · July 2009

I've pretty much been doing the opposite. I've been kinda living out here for awhile now. I've got someone that has been staying across the street who i talk to during the day, but the 31st he's moving out of town. So i dunno what im going to do. >.<

â™¥Andreaâ™¥ · July 2009

:'[ Poor Buffeh. Life can be eevil this way. -hugs- I know how this situation feels. It sucks. No sugar-coating, no kinda-sorta. It just plain-ol' sucks. But if you needs someone to talk to, like I said, I do know how it feels to want to help and be totally helpless. I also know how it feels to have people you love deteriorate. -ouch.- sorry, I'm so blunt... :/ Eeek. This might not be helpful, but if you wanna talk... Andi iz here. :] In all her stupefying bluntness, she is here.

BuffyBoarding · July 2009

Thank you very much dear. I know there's not alot that anyone can say or do. That was typed at 5 this morning, i was stressed. I still am. But i've got someone here for at least the next couple days. After that, i'll go from there. :roll:

SunnyDaysDontLie · July 2009

Oh, that's not good, Buffy. I hope she's okay! I remember Grandpa always passing out before he died

BuffyBoarding · July 2009

Thanks Sunny. She's fine now, her elecrolytes, pottasium, and such were all low, as well as a problem with her thyroid. I've been over here most of the last week, but all is going really well, we've got a heart doctor set up just in case she needs all the tests to be run, but right now we're holding off on it since her EKG came back fine.

SunnyDaysDontLie · August 2009

Buffy wrote:

Thanks Sunny. She's fine now, her elecrolytes, pottasium, and such were all low, as well as a problem with her thyroid. I've been over here most of the last week, but all is going really well, we've got a heart doctor set up just in case she needs all the tests to be run, but right now we're holding off on it since her EKG came back fine.

Thats good :]

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