A Long Week

It's been a long week.

Let's re-cap, shall we?

On Wed, Nov 22nd, granddaddy goes into the hospital while I am desperately trying to conjure a decent Thanksgiving meal.

On Sun, Nov 26th, I came down with a stomach virus from hell. I don't know if it is/was a stomach virus or something else. The point is that I felt awful. Really awful. Granddaddy also had his peg tube replaced that evening.

On Mon, Nov 27th, granddaddy was sent back to the nursing home, doing much better.
My husband went out of town for work for the week. I was still sick.

On Tues, Nov 28th, I felt a little better. I was hopeful that Wed was going to be a good day. The evening sucked because I realized that my best online buddy wasn't going to be online anymore, at least for a while. She was my back-up support and there was nothing I could do to help her with her problem. Some friend I am. Geeezzzzzz.

By Wed, Nov 29th, I could see the folly of my hope. I could see it going down the toilet as a matter of fact. I was on the phone, calling my husband, telling him that he may need to come home since my mother (who lives with us) was home with me, sick as a dog also. I was in a panic, worrying that something was going to happen to one of the grandparents. If something were to happen, I had no way of dealing with it, no one to call. I could have just barely handled it if one of the kids had gotten sick. I took 1/2 of a nausea pill that my grandmother had sent down to me to see if it would help. Nope. That was what I watched go down the toilet along with the other fun stuff I had managed to choke down.

Thurs, Nov 30th, I realize that we haven't worked on the youngest son's homework all week. Oh dear Lord. I didn't want to raise my head up much less work on kindergarten homework. We got it done though.

Fri, Dec 1st came around. I was stillllllll sick. I was convinced that a higher power was out for blood from me. I wanted to lose weight but not this way! So far, I've lost 5 lbs this week. Nothing like going without food for days to melt that weight away. My husband had a company Christmas party that (last) night. It was at a nice hotel in the big city. We had reserved a room a month ago so we could drink and not drive home. Just an "us" night. Bawahahahhaaa!!!
My mother even took the night off from her second job just to babysit.
I took 1/4 of a nausea pill. It took the edge off. I could feel my stomach relaxing so I jumped in the shower and started getting ready. My husband came home about 3:30pm. I was taking the 1/4 pill every 2 hrs just to get through. The kids are still up at my grandmother's house where they get off the bus. I had yet to go and get them. My daughter calls at 3:50pm to tell us that my middle child is throwing up. Oh great. My husband runs up there and brings them home. My middle child seems to be handling it quite well so we decide, after my mother comes in, that we will go on to the party as planned.

Oh but wait! I forgot a small thing....

At 12:34am on Fri, the nursing home calls to tell me that granddaddy is being rushed to the hospital by rescue squad. As she (the nurse) is telling me this, I could feel my stomach going into spasms. I had just dozed off when she called. I threw on my clothes (you thought I was going to say 'threw up', didn't ya??) and flew to the hospital which is about 20 miles away. The nurse (at the nh) said that he was having tremors and she couldn't get his oxygen back up. It had dropped back to the 70s with O2 on. By the time I got to the emergency room at 12:52am, he was still quite pale but his vitals were good. The doctor at the hospital couldn't find anything wrong with him. He had a head CT, blood work and an ekg. His triponin level was slightly elevated from May (his last test) which shows that he had some bit of heart damage that occured at some point between then and now. He was slightly responsive. When he did talk, it was about his wife or my daughter. The doctor (who was great, btw!) said that this was 'probably' the beginning of his major decline; that he may have 4 minutes or 4 years left. Nobody knows. The doctor and his nurse made arrangements to have granddaddy transported back to the nh. The transport team was called at 6:10 am. I was so ready to come home then. The nurse comes into the room to tell me that the team wouldn't be there until 7am. All night long, I went between feeling ok to feeling as if I was going to pass out to being just flat nauseated back to feeling ok. When the nurse told me it was going to be at least 50 more minutes, I could feel my stomach rolling. I thought to myself that I had made it all night, I could do 50 more minutes. Yeah, right. 7am came and went. At 7:45am, in tears, I told the new nurse (they had changed shifts) that I could barely hold my head up anymore. I went home. I got home about 8:15am. I was called by the nh about 11:15am on Fri. The nurse tells me that granddaddy got back about 8:15. I knew he'd be ok but I hated to leave him before he was transported. By the time I got home, I had been up 27 hours straight. I laid down and slept about 2 hrs before getting up. I just couldn't sleep anymore. I think by that time I was too tired, too worn out, too stressed out to even sleep.

Now we're back to where I started on Fri, Dec 1st.

Today is Sat, Dec 2nd and I feel a little better. Well, alot better. I just hope it lasts. My husband and I had a good time last night at the party. I told him that I thought that was the most comfortable bed I had ever slept in in a hotel. I don't know if it was that comfortable or if I was just that tired. My mother had a rough night watching the kids. My middle child was nauseated but started to get over it when my youngest threw up at about midnight. This only leaves my oldest child and my husband as to who hasn't gotten sick yet. I just hope they don't. My husband kindly put the lights up on the house this past week. I finally got around to decorating the tree today. I still haven't decorated the inside of the house. I guess I'll get around to it sometime this week. I need to go to the grocery store too for both my own family here and my grandmother. So much to catch up on.

Aren't you glad you stopped by?
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