Grandma's Journal

Ok Cindy I did it. Now I will blog daily, or atleast try to. I am a mother of two beautiful girls who are adults and NOT living at home! A wife of 30 years to a wonderful man who has stood by me through all the daily trials of our life. I am a daughter that takes care of her mother who is 85 years old and has alzhemires disease.

This year has been a trying year already and it is only March. I had a grand daughter that was born on my birthday. It was a wonderful day full of surprises that started at 5:30am with my daughter waking me up and telling me Happy Birthday and to get up it was time to go to the hospital. Needless to say I was running around the house in the buff crying and saying over and over again "I am getting a baby on my birthday!"...my daughter finally told me NO mom your not getting a baby "I am" your getting a granddaughter! she was born at 8:34 in the morning and was a beautiful little black hair girl. I didn't leave the hospital until 10:30 that evening! I didn't want to leave, it was wonderful to hold and love on her.

Then a week later I had surgery to have a valve and cyst removed from my left breast. Surgery went fine and I woke up for the 1st time with No vomiting! I even ate taco's for lunch! I went home with 2 incisions an inch long and a mole cut off my nipple. My breast was held up with tape that made me look funnier then a comic strip. One breast pointed straight out and the other one hung down to my knees. Thats the picture I saw...

Yesterday my granddaughter was 20 days old and admitted to Sacret Heart Hosptial in Spokane...the stupid ER doctor here at KGH said that he was sending her there as he thought she showed signs of Lukemia...so within an hour, we had DesiRay packed, mommy half packed and Auntie Donna on her way to pick them up and off to Spokane they went...

We were worried sick, and didn't even want to attend our home hockey game, but we decided it would be better for Carson if we did. We went to our game, which we won! and got news that the Dr in Spokane said that with all of his doctoring she didn't have Lukemia...so test were started...as of this evening, DesiRay has RSV....an infection of the respertory system...not treated with drugs, it runs it course but can be deadly if not caught in time...thank goodness Amy is an over protected mom and had the knowledge that something was not right....we are still waiting more more test results to come in, and they are still at the hospital in Spokane but we are praying they will get to come home tomorrow...

tomorrow brings a busy day with an dr apt for Carson, a dentist apt for Neil, and a car apt for my car that needs to be done so I can drive out of town this weekend...

time for bed as 3:30 comes early for I am watching my grandson why his daddy goes to work in the morning...

Grandma's Journal My Journal I became a Grandma at the age of 49 years old. Well I was actually only 17 days from being 50. My baby girl gave me gave me my first grandchild. He was a beautiful bouncy boy. Then 2 years later she surprised me on my birthday at 5am by waking me up and telling me "Happy Birthday Mom!" Time to get up we are going to the hospital and having a baby today! I told her NO that's tomorrow. It took a little bit for her to get it through my groggy head that she was going to be giving me a birthday present! and she totally did. She gave me a dark hair beautiful little grand daughter. Now I can enjoy spoiling 2. I have decided that the best thing in the world is being a Grandma! There is nothing that come close to that! I have been married for 30 years to a man that lives for his family. He only wants the best for all of us and spoils us all! He is a good man that works hard for his dollar. We have a pretty good marriage to say the least. Well it must be if we can put up with each others faults this long! My mom who has Alzehimers lives with us and has been for almost 3 years now. She is in the finally stages of the disease and still hangs in there. She loves to grab the broom and sweep. She does this everyday, and several times a day. I keeps her busy. She will even sweep the counch or the kitchen table if you let her. My oldest daughter is going to be 34 years old this year and hasn't lived at home in 16 years. I spend as must time as I can with her. But it is never enough. She plans on coming home to live and take care of us in 7 years. I cant wait! It's my dream to have her home. She is a dear friend to me and we have a great relationship. she always tells me that I am her best friend.
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