Typed November 27th, 2005 12:30pm
So we're back on the road. My brother is nice enough to let me use his laptop again. We just left Bozeman, Montana. The snow made a bit of a delay in our travels this morning. Right now the roads are clearer so we're back on track. It's been a whirlwind weekend! A lots of things have happened in the last few days. It's been a definite adventure.
My Grandma - My grandma broke her hip a couple days before our arrival. She went through surgery but had to go to an old folks home for physical therapy to help her work her hip. She was not going to be able to be home for Thanksgiving or the wedding, which was a disappointment for the whole family. Then the day we were to arrive, Thanksgiving Day, we were told she had taken a turn for the worse. She had really bad tremors and her blood was extremely thin because of the medication she was already on for other issues she was dealing with. They were concerned that if she hit herself at all that she would bleed to death because they wouldn't be able to stop the bleeding. So she was taken to the emergency room.
The next morning we weren’t given good news. She took a turn for the worse. She was placed in ICU. Her tremors were so bad and her blood levels (?) were even lower. And it turned out that she had Pneumonia on top of everything else. They were concerned she had bleeding in the brain or meningitis. They had to partially paralyze her to calm her tremors down and intubated (?sp) and strapped her arms down. It was pretty scary. They ran a catscan and found no bleeding in the brain which was good. She apparently had an infection which was causing the tremors and so they pumped her body full of antibiotics. The Pneumonia was because they hadn't noticed the fluid in her lungs when she came out of her original surgery. They took her off the breathing machine and they got her blood levels up.
The last few days were pretty intense emotions over the condition of my grandma. We went to see her yesterday and today. Yesterday she was still in ICU but luckily this morning on our way out of town we stopped by the hospital again and she's out of ICU and looked sooo much better. It made it easier to leave knowing she was healing so well. She looked healthy and alert. The way I remember her looking two years ago when I last visited.
My cousin Kerri’s wedding – The wedding was last night at 4:00pm. We had decorated the day before. With all the concern over grandma we didn’t have my Aunt Darlene around for guidance so we decorated blindly. Luckily my cousin Joey was there to lead us and she had enough understanding of her moms ideas that when my Aunt Darlene showed up she was impressed with where we had gotten in the decorations. That night we went out to the local bar, The Bear Trap. It was the location for the rehearsal dinner but as soon as that was done we started into the fun. They had karaoke. It was a lot of fun! We had a great time talking, laughing, drinking, singing karaoke and dancing (on the bar! Don’t worry, I got pictures hehe). I enjoyed watching people making fools of themselves. hehe My cousins got smashed! I got tired of the smoke and decided I wanted to go home at around midnight. My Aunt came to pick me up and my brother and sister joined me but my cousins stayed to close up the bar! Hehe
So the next morning my brother, sister and her kids decided to go out and see my grandma at the hospital. After that we decided to get some food and that took a lot longer then we had expected and so by the time we got back to our motel we had just enough time to get ready for the wedding! We got there a few minutes late! And I was stuck taking video of the ceremony. Afterwards it seemed to go rather quickly and I spent most of my time hanging out with my nieces and nephews and my cousins Clint and Joey.
posted by Charity at 12/01/2005 02:01:00 PM 
