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grandma's doing okay.. she may have pnenomia now, but her blood counts (platelets, etc) are going up so that's a good sign!

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Update....

July 17th - I drive back home after tonight's hospital visit at 9pm to go to work because my boss is cranky and taking it out on my assistant
July 18th - I fly back to Reno after work because my dad can only stay one day because of legal depositions he has to be in on Wed and Thurs
July 20th - HOPEFULLY my grandma finally gets transfered and I drive my grandpa home because he's too depressed to drive

I think I've slept in the Bay Area a total of 5 nights this month!.. well, 6 if you count tonight.

Grandma is doing okay. She got a trach (sp?) tube in her throat last Friday so she's still pretty sedated from the surgery.. but otherwise she's doing okay. Blood pressure is still pretty high but they're working on that.

It's pretty much between me and my dad to cover my grandpa!

Next month better go SO much better!!

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Last night (Mon) we went to go visit my grandma before I had to drive home and she did not look like she was doing so well. So I got my grandpa out of there and called my dad, who got them to do a CAT scan on her because she was having some nuerological complications in the last couple hours (they had a stroke team standing by in case it was another stroke). I told my grandpa they were going to do a scan just to be on the safe side, and he seemed the happiest he's been in a while because it looked like they were doing something. Got him tucked into bed and started driving home at 9pm since we had to wait a couple hours for the scan results. About 11pm, I was in Sacramento (halfway home) and I called in to see if the test came back.

The nurse I talked to said that my grandma was not doing well at all and that she had a fever, very high blood pressure, and was basically hyperventalating. The CAT scan showed that she was in an "irriversable coma" and that she was about to call my dad so he could make some decisions. I pretty much turned around at that point and called my dad, who told me to go home because he needed me to fly up so I could drive Grandpa home. I call my mom, who helps me get an earlier plane ticket for 7:40am and arrange for Jason's roommate to take me the airport 4 hours after I get home. So he calls the nurse and the nurse tells him that my grandma's condition probably won't change in the next 24 hours so there was no urgency, but wanted to double check that my grandma should be resesitated if anything were to happen. My dad asked if they expected something to happen and the nurse said no, she just wanted to double check.

So I'm in tears sobbing on the way home. Jason was sound asleep (he's horrible to try to wake up) so I'm on the phone with his roommate Don a good chunk of the way home. Don's gets off work at 10:30pm and goes to the bar with friends afterwards, so he said he'd be home by the time I got there since I was feeling pretty sick. Pulled off twice to puke at bathrooms - the second time in a really bad neighborhood that some guys were knocking on my window (I had locked myself in the car while the gas pumped) until a trucker made them leave. I finally get home and Don wasn't there yet (he was trying to shake off an older woman who was hitting on him!) so I drop my stuff off in Jason's room. He sort of wakes up and holds me for a little bit while I'm sobbing. I go to brush my teeth and come back to find him dead to the world again. I calm down a bit and end up falling asleep on the couch at 4:00am.

I go to work and on my way, call the hospital who say that my grandma has an infection somewhere and that the heart doctor and some other doctor were in there evaluating her. So I just talked to my dad who said that the nurse was entirely wrong yesterday. He's there and my grandma is opening her eyes (for the first time since Thursday) and following them, and aparently looking much better than yesterday now that she's on antibiotics. He convinced my grandpa to drive home today and said he'd call me back to discuss the rest of this week and what was going on. Once her fever goes down, we can hopefully transfer her to a hospital down here.

I am so friggin' tired. Sorry this is so long - felt good just to get it all out. I am hopefully going to leave work early to get a nap in case I fly out tonight. (Tues)

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I am so touched to see everyone's responses and thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. I am still up in Reno right now, but we are hoping to transfer her either Friday or Monday back to San Jose. She had another setback yesterday when some dye for an x-ray they were going to do on her stomach got into her lungs. They put her on the respirator again, so hopefully as soon as she can breathe on her own and her temperature goes down from the infection, she'll be ready to transport.

Hopefully this will be my last trip up here. I had 100 vacation hours at the begining of the month and I think I may have used most, if not all of them by now. Luckily my boss doesn't care. And it will be nice to be home with my boyfriend, who I am missing like crazy.

Thanks again everybody for your thoughts and prayers (and especially to Shelley!). It's going to be a long road to recovery..

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My grandma is still in Reno. We can't find anywhere down here to take her. My dad has a meeting today with one facility in San Leandro (45 mins away from San Jose) that is looking the most promising. The problem is she has the tract tube in her throat and many places won't take her if there is no future outlook of her getting it out (which there isn't). She can't be transfered to a rehab facility either because she can't follow commands for three hours. It's frusterating. Nobody's up there with her now, which I hate but I really can't afford to take the time off of work anymore. I only have about 3 days worth of vacation to last me until next May. I will probably be going up there this weekend if she's not back here.

Still homeless and it's really starting to bum me out. I miss my cat like crazy and she's so mad at me that she won't even go near me after the initial petting she gets when I go over to visit. Jason has been awesome and is even going to put my dresser in his room for me until I find a place so I don't have to live out of a gym bag. I think he and his roommate are just happy that their place is so dang clean lately.

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This is from 8/2/06....

Yah!! You SO needed this to happen Jen!!

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finally good news!

for those who know my grandma or have been following the saga...

my grandma is coming home today!!

well, not home but we finally found an assisted living place that will accept her.. so after spending a month in a Reno hospital, she's finally coming back to the bay area today! which is very good because she'll be closer and I am so sick of Reno

I definitely needed this good news!

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