The past couple of weeks have been a stressful time for my entire family. My grandfather has been in the hospital for the past two weeks. Weekend before this one he was even in ICU and we honestly did not know if he would be coming out of there. He improved and thankfully has been able to stabilize somewhat. Today he was taken to another hospital where they have more specialized heart doctors. In fact he is at the same hospital that I had my surgery at just a couple of weeks ago. My grandfather is 85 and is really high risk for heart surgery. The doctors are gonna run some more test tomorrow and see if it would be possible to get him back to where he was before all this began with just medicine. All of us have been extremely stressed. My uncle(his son) came from Denver when grandfather went into the hospital. So the entire family has come together. My gf has been making sure she gets me to the hospital before she goes to work so I can sit with him. Since I am still healing from my own surgery I stay long as I can and then get driven home by either my uncle or brother in law. My sister has been holding up and making sure she tries to stay overnight when she can. Now that he is in another hospital its gonna be hard for me to see him. Long rides with this neck right now just dont feel good and I could end up worse and right beside him. So long as he is ok I will try and get there when I can. If he worsens I will get to the hospital come hell or high water. We lost grandmother in 2003 and my sis and I were raised by grandfather and grandmother. So you can imagine our concerns.
As for me I am trying to heal still. The neck brace has caused me to break out in rashes. We have now put wash clothes over the pads on the brace to try and keep it from rubbing so bad. With this heat though it itches like hell. Sandy has been a real blessing. She has kept the pads cleaned and has rubbed down my neck when she takes the brace off. She has been doing everything around here cause I can not lift a thing till July. She is a true trooper and I love her very much for all she has been doing. I have to sleep in a recliner because I cannot lay flat. Sandy says I actually stop breathing at some points during the night. Not to mention the pain was just to much. The recliner has been a blessing. I hate not being able to sleep in our bed but for now I guess we have to put up with it. So I sleep in the living room now.
Well I think that's enough for me right now. I pray for my grandfather and my family and all my friends who have been helping me during this entire month. Taking it one day at a time....RON
