October 3, 2007
Earlier this week, my grandmother had a stroke and was rushed to the hospital. The stroke was the largest stroke she has had to date. At the time, she was entirely paralyzed and could not speak. Fortunately, she is able to speak coherently and move around. Oddly enough, her mental faculties seem to be slightly improved compared to how she was before the stroke. Fortunately, she lives in a wonderful assisted living facility and can get help for any problems she might have because of the stroke. She actually went home this evening and seems to be in good spirits. I am just glad that she is all right.
I am having some knee problems that I have ignored for far too long. It appears that I may have a meniscus injury. Not surprisingly, it is most likely from doing cardio kickboxing. I had stopped for a while and had started swimming instead but the pain has not receded. I definitely noticed it when Brian and I went to Akaka Falls this past weekend. I knew when I felt pain on such a short and ridiculously easy hike that I could no longer pretend like nothing was wrong especially since I have not been able to straighten my right leg for a long time. I will be going to the doctor soon to see what can be done.
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March 22, 2005
Today, we went to visit my grandmother at her retirement home. We even ate lunch with her… Eating lunch with her is never enjoyable when you have to eat at the retirement home. I think Brian was somewhat horrified by the menu and by the strange people there. My grandmother kept insisting that we wanted a cat and that I want to join a garden club in Ohio. We do not like cats and I do not wish to join an Ohioan garden club…but that makes little difference because that is inconsistent with what she wants. She also wants all my roses from my parents yard. She even insists that the roses are hers, which I find interesting.
On a better note, we went to Little Five Points today and bought some interesting books from a strange little used bookstore. Next, we are planning to visit the oldest feminist bookstore in Atlanta to look around…
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October 31, 2001
Oh what a day. I went to the hospital this morning VERY early to sit through grandma’s surgery. She came through just fine. She’s doing better than I thought but they want her to come home tomorrow. My dad isn’t in the country, my mom is dealing with her mom who is having health problems as well. So, I am left to deal with grandma #2. So she has a broken ankle and we have lots of stairs, what fun this shall be. She’s going to be recooperating for 8 weeks and I suppose I am left to tend to her. She’s crazy but she’d take care of me if I was ill or hurt. So, I’m alone here. I don’t really expect anything from anyone anymore, seems like a futile expenditure of energy.
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October 30, 2001
Oh dear god, if the day got any worse I might kill someone. Firstly, I went to bed really late last night only to awake to my grandmother shouting “katy, katy, katy…” So, I walked out to find her screaming and crying in a chair. I said what’s wrong? She said she hurt her ankle, so I said ok lets go to the emergency room. She’s like ok just get my walker, I said do you think you can walk on it? She said maybe. So she gets down one stair with the walker, looking like an idiot because she’s totally doing it wrong. I end up having to pick her up and carry her up the stair and oh my god is she heavy. So we get inside I call 911. What fun what fun. I had to make some calls to my mom and dad (out of the country) to come to the hospital. I told them to take her to one hospital because her doctors practice out of there. In the ambulance she decides to go to a hospital 40 mins away from the other hospital which me and my mom are both on the way too. So yea, I was pissed. So we get to the *right* hospital. I had to fill out all this paperwork and do all this junk. She’s having her surgery tomorrow at 730 AM, and I have to be there at 630 AM! Then my other grandma calls this evening to tell my mom she’s going to see a vascular surgeon about her leg because she’s having more problems. She also had her hip replaced in August. My other grandma, the one in the hospital now has been in two other times in the last year. Grrrr, too much hospital time makes Katy a very annoyed girl. I fell down the stairs like 7 months ago but did anyone help me? NO. Rude.
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