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Earlier the police were closing in on Nehru's location and he had to move to another location. Then tonight my grandmother was getting up and going to the bathroom at 1 am, and fell and couldn't call out (earlier today my grandmother and then my mom got the flu bug with fever, cough, lost voices, etc. Tonight my dad got it also.) Thankfully I was in the downstairs bathroom which was directly below where she fell and I heard a bump. This house has alot of phantom bump noises, but I usually check them out anyhow.
So I went upstairs and at first I thought it was my mom or dad, since most of the downstairs bathroom is under their bedroom and they were fine. My grandmother's door was closed like usual and I debated opening it, because she gets upset when people don't "respect" her privacy, but she can't hear you if you knock on her door and I didn't want to wake her if she was still asleep.
I finally decided to be brave and open the door to peek in, I heard a rough raspy breathing sound and thought that it didn't sound good and that my grandmother had taken a turn for the worse. (she has terminal cancer in multiple locations) So I started to go into the room and my grandmother called out my mother's name. I said in german, (since she speaks no english) that no it is me, but she didn't answer. Since the voice came from the floor area instead of the bed, I reached behind me and turned on the light and found my grandmother sprawled on the floor. I asked her if she was okay, but she didn't have her hearing aid in and couldn't hear me so I got right next to her on the floor and asked her again and she said her hip and leg hurt. I felt all along the area and didn't find anything broken. She was trying to get up and I told her to wait.
I called out to my mom and she came to help me. I got in behind my grandmother and lifted her from underneath her arms, but my grandmother was so shook up she couldn't support her own weight. So we got her the walker she uses but she couldn't neogotiate it. ( her legs wouldn't hold her up) I wanted to put her back in bed, but she insisted we take her to the bathroom which is where she was heading. So it took me and my mom and the walker almost 20 minutes to move her 10 feet. Once we had her in the bathroom, my mom ran for her bathroom ( she actually had to leave before we had grandmother to the toliet, she was feeling lightheaded and like she had to throw up and like she was going to faint all at the same time.)
Once I had my grandmother seated, I told her not to move, and she said she was desperate for something to drink that she had called out till she was hoarse, so I got her mineral water for her, went to check on my mom, called hospice home health care that is suppose to help provide care for my grandmother (but the nurse wasn't available and that they would have to call me back later) and then went to wake up my daughter to help me get grandmother from the bathroom back to bed. I brought up a desk chair with wheels that had no arms on it and brought it into the bathroom,(since the walker wouldn't fit through the bathroom doorway) and I had my daughter brace herself against the chair so it wouldn't roll away while I lifted my grandmother off the toliet and onto the chair.
Thankfully it work. We had to work together to roll her into her bedroom and once we got her close to bed, I had my daughter help me stand her up and then lean up against the bed and turned her so her butt was resting against the mattress, but she couldn't lift herself into bed. So I then put my arms under her knees and behind her shoulders and lifted her into bed. I'm exhausted, but now I have to stay up all night and monitor her. The nurse from hospice won't be here till around 9:45 am. So goes another wonderful day in my neighborhood.
UniKorn Tiger · Thu Mar 24, 2005 @ 08:19am · 4 Comments |
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