OK, so I'm not doing my normal content this weekend because I'm just too tired after being too busy. My dad and grandma are both in the hospital and both are very concerning. My dad had some blood problems and got rushed to the hospital and they can't really figure out what the problem is; he's stable but we don't know what the problem is. Then on Thursday my grandma went to the hospital with sepsis from a bed sore she's been fighting for like 7 months, which meant that I was on call to leave work in case this was the end. Mskate went to the hospital to help my mom with all the craziness mid-day and then I went to the hospital after work and took a personal day on Friday because I needed to be there. Once I got to the hospital she was in the emergency room and that was kind of crazy. When I got there she lit up seeing me, so that made everyone kind of happy. With the dementia there's a lot that we try to get her to remember and she just doesn't, so I was telling her some of the stories that she told me all the time. One of them was when we went to a family reunion and I didn't shut up the entire drive. I said "and you know what happened next, and you know what happened next, and you know what happened next, and you know what happened next" (because that's what I kept saying between recalling what happened in cartoons that I watched) and she said "and it kept going on and on and on," which we all took to mean that she remembered that story. She got to a room around 7PM and we got some liquid snack foods from nursing since dinner was over and she hadn't eaten all day. Just craziness. Mskate and I stayed the night with her parents since they have a guest room.
Friday mskate and I went to see my dad in the morning while mom went to see grandma. They unfortunately are at different hospitals which makes being with both difficult. Dad was in pretty good spirits, but just frustrated that his primary doctor and backup doctor was on vacation and nothing was happening because it was the weekend. We had about a 2 hour visit. After that IRA and I went to see the day the earth blew up, which you can hear my review here. After that mskate and I went to see grandma and we fed her dinner. I found that she doesn't get the channels she likes; educational children's channels (PBS kids and disney junior type channels), the gameshow rerun channel, or metv toons. She does get the hallmark channel and cartoon network/adult swim (which is the west coast feed meaning that adult swim starts much later than on our east coast feed), so we'd watch cartoon network during the day and hallmark channel at night. She's not much of a TV watcher and never was, but we like to put something on to keep her stimulated and we need to put on something that won't be scary or offensive, which is kids cartoons and hallmark movies in this case. We also fed her as much dinner as she could stand. Once we got back to mskate's parents IRA and I watched some Cobra Kai since we like to do that together.
Saturday was kind of wild. Mskate and I went to see grandma in the morning and we took both of our cars, so mskate went right to the hospital and I did a little grocery shopping, looking for shelf stable foods we could leave in the room for visitors to try to feed her (since we're at a point of "any calorie replacement please"). I picked up strawberry-apple sauce, applesauce squeeze tubes, nutella, dove chocolate, saunder's chocolate coated caramels, a 3 musketeers bar, and a botte of coke. We also wanted to get some full sugar puding but the grocery store I went to only had the kind that needed refrigeration. When I got there she was still eating breakfast, so I was able to get her to eat all of the eggs and some of the meat. We had a good little visit for a couple hours. After that we went home and got ready for our next night of events, the big 10 women's gymnastics competition at UofM. I'll go into more details when I write the full blog, but it was a pretty good event. We saw 4 perfect 10s, and saw olympians. On the way there I had something REALLY scary happen though, as I was driving I noticed my index finger didn't have my grandpa's ring on it. I knew I had it when I left the house, but my rings had been a little loose the past couple of days so it must have fallen off somewhere between the stairs landing and in the car. We looked when we got out but it wasn't anywhere we could see. I get home and go through the recycling bin and garbage cans to make sure it didn't end up in there, and it didn't so partial relief, but it wasn't on the stairs, in the garage, or the cupboard, or bin next to the stairs, or anywhere.
Sunday we went to church and that went well. After church I tore the car apart looking everywhere. I was worried it might have fallen down the vent that gives climate to the back seat but then I saw my fingers wouldn't fit in the holes so my ring definitely wouldn't. After getting rid of all the garbage and moving the seat all the way back I see something kind of shiny under the track the seat adjustment rides on, and it was my grandpa's ring. I yelled for joy with that. Mskate and I also got our pictures taken for the church directory since we do coffee and donuts every 2nd Sunday of the month (it's kind of funny, the donut groups are the ushers, the women's group, the nights of columbus, and then there's the donut group of pokematic, mskate, and one other parishioner). Later in the evening we went to chuck e cheese because we have the 2 month pass. Mskate is doing a fund raiser this year where people pay to get easter eggs set up in their yard, and we decided we were going to use some of our 3600 tickets to get prizes for the eggs since CEC doesn't really have prizes that appeal to us as 30 something adults. It was kind of busy so we focused on quick thrills today. With the prizes we got some wind up airplanes, smily face rings, and butterfly erasers. It ended up being like 1750 tickets, but that's OK it's egg treats we didn't have to "spend money on." Now I'm just relaxing and watching Sunday night cartoons like I've been doing for the past 13 or so years. Later.
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