blas
05-24-2007, 07:17 PM
Go figure, not a day can go by without bad news in my life.
My grandma (my mom's mom) had to be put in a nursing home per doctor's orders.
Let me first explain that my grandma had my mother when she was quite young. My grandma is just over 60 years old. She is by no means an old lady.
She is, however in extreme failing health. My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer and emphaseyma (sp?). She was told a year ago by doctors that she had 2 years to live. She was put on an oxygen tank and told to stop smoking immediately.
My grandmother lives out by Boston. I've only seen her two or three times in my entire life. She lives with my mother's younger half brother (who I have never met, only spoken to). He is incompetent and unable to keep a job for more than 2 weeks, and unable to care for his daughter (I think he's.....33 maybe?) so he doesn't get to see her. I've never seen my cousin, either.
Grandma will not stop smoking. She won't use her oxygen tank and won't stop going outside and smoking. My uncle does nothing to stop her or even try to stop her.
For reasons unknown (as I thought family members had more say in these things than doctors do) the doctor ordered my grandma put into a nursing home for 2 weeks just so she wouldn't be able to smoke and to help her stop smoking. He also told her that because she hasn't stopped smoking, he now estimates she only has 6 months to live.
Please, let's not turn this into a smoking debate, and please, nobody say that grandma did this to herself.
My grandma is dying. If she can't stop smoking at home, I'm assuming she'll have to stay at the nursing home until she dies.
I don't know what to say. I typed this as I smoked a cigarette. I've been smoking for 8 years. I can't stop.......
I just want to cry. With logistics and my money situation, there's no way I'll be able to go see grandma. I'm never going to get to say goodbye to my grandma....
Can't a day go by without something awful happening....
My grandma (my mom's mom) had to be put in a nursing home per doctor's orders.
Let me first explain that my grandma had my mother when she was quite young. My grandma is just over 60 years old. She is by no means an old lady.
She is, however in extreme failing health. My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer and emphaseyma (sp?). She was told a year ago by doctors that she had 2 years to live. She was put on an oxygen tank and told to stop smoking immediately.
My grandmother lives out by Boston. I've only seen her two or three times in my entire life. She lives with my mother's younger half brother (who I have never met, only spoken to). He is incompetent and unable to keep a job for more than 2 weeks, and unable to care for his daughter (I think he's.....33 maybe?) so he doesn't get to see her. I've never seen my cousin, either.
Grandma will not stop smoking. She won't use her oxygen tank and won't stop going outside and smoking. My uncle does nothing to stop her or even try to stop her.
For reasons unknown (as I thought family members had more say in these things than doctors do) the doctor ordered my grandma put into a nursing home for 2 weeks just so she wouldn't be able to smoke and to help her stop smoking. He also told her that because she hasn't stopped smoking, he now estimates she only has 6 months to live.
Please, let's not turn this into a smoking debate, and please, nobody say that grandma did this to herself.
My grandma is dying. If she can't stop smoking at home, I'm assuming she'll have to stay at the nursing home until she dies.
I don't know what to say. I typed this as I smoked a cigarette. I've been smoking for 8 years. I can't stop.......
I just want to cry. With logistics and my money situation, there's no way I'll be able to go see grandma. I'm never going to get to say goodbye to my grandma....
Can't a day go by without something awful happening....