grandparent news
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
My grandmother is in the hospital, in California. They apparently aren't certain what's going on, but think she might have had another stroke on Saturday. (She had one about 13 years ago which left her in a wheelchair ever since with various impairments -- all physical, none mental, thank G-d. OTOH she's also gotten progressively more deaf and blind as the years have worn on.) Her blood pressure when they brought her in was something insane like 240/120.
She'll be 91 next Tuesday, April 10. At this point, they're not sure whether she will make it. :-/ She's certainly said for years already that she's perfectly ready to go, and most of us will concur that it's not really "too soon" in any sense. But I hate to know it's going on, my mom and my aunts having to cope, and I'm so far away.
GoogleMaps says Somerville, MA > Lodi, CA = 3,043 miles = about 45 hours' drive. Hmm.... (Yes, I could probably get a plane ticket, but it'd be nice to have my car at the other end. And I've always WANTED to drive cross-country...! I could do it in 3 days going out and take a little longer coming back; if I left Saturday morning, I could get there by Monday night, and I wouldn't technically have to get back any sooner than, like, April 20. Heh.)
Meanwhile, my dad is in Florida dealing with possible logistics for moving his parents out of their little retirement complex and into some kind of assisted living. A tough week all around.
... Otherwise, things more locally are reasonably good as Day 2 of Passover draws to an end. But more on that shortly.
She'll be 91 next Tuesday, April 10. At this point, they're not sure whether she will make it. :-/ She's certainly said for years already that she's perfectly ready to go, and most of us will concur that it's not really "too soon" in any sense. But I hate to know it's going on, my mom and my aunts having to cope, and I'm so far away.
GoogleMaps says Somerville, MA > Lodi, CA = 3,043 miles = about 45 hours' drive. Hmm.... (Yes, I could probably get a plane ticket, but it'd be nice to have my car at the other end. And I've always WANTED to drive cross-country...! I could do it in 3 days going out and take a little longer coming back; if I left Saturday morning, I could get there by Monday night, and I wouldn't technically have to get back any sooner than, like, April 20. Heh.)
Meanwhile, my dad is in Florida dealing with possible logistics for moving his parents out of their little retirement complex and into some kind of assisted living. A tough week all around.
... Otherwise, things more locally are reasonably good as Day 2 of Passover draws to an end. But more on that shortly.