Yup, It Was That Kind of Day

We are home from the doctor. Adele aka Grandma has bronchitis at least. So one shot, a breathing treatment and a new prescription later we are home. However, if she is not remarkably better in a few days we are back in again. He was pretty proactive about it which I appreciate.
In other news, she has lost several more pounds, her memory is getting more and more fuzzy and today her blood sugar was all over the scale. Vitals were pretty ok, which was surprising.
So I am going to assume that the cancer is still in control.
While it is sad work to care for a dying person, I will say this: My granny also went quietly this way and it is a gentle, dignified way to go. In this case, Adele has her husband by her side and they are very touching to listen to as they talk at night while they watch tv together. She had asked me to make sure they stayed together as long as possible so that is what we have tried to do.
Luckily there are all of us and we have a companion hired for him for several hours a day. That way none of us burn out.
I have been watching her little light fade just a little bit at a time for the last several weeks. She is not bedridden or anything yet, but she is doing less and less. As I stated, it is sad to watch, but they have both lived a wonderful life and if you gotta go, this is not a bad way. I hope our children are as good to us.

Merry Christmas!

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Well, do I have a lot of complaining to do!!! We have 6 foot snow drifts, spent many, many hours digging out even with the driveway being plowed twice and I am sick of winter. This is southern Michigan for pete's sake. I can honestly say this is the worst winter so far in all my years living in the area. This is a lot of snow for up north, but it makes it a double whammy down here.
Other than that all is well in Imlay City. The show was wonderful. Pics to be put up soon. Grandma is surviving her treatments ok. She is currently wearing some machine to check her heart which she is not too happy about, BUT her pulse was only 32 yesterday. So........she is wearing her monitor and being the good little Grandma.
Anyway have to scoot for now. There is coffee to make, but Merry Christmas everyone and God Bless you!

Chemo Port Insertion

Good morning everyone,
I am sitting in the operating waiting room at the hospital. Adele is getting her port for chemo today. Her pulse was very low this morning so we now have something else to add to our list of symptems. I guess I always took health for granted because my people have always lived long relatively healthy lives. I am learning a lot about cancer. It is an area that is totally foregn to me.
Adele's spirits are up and down. Very appropriate I think. She has lived a long and great life. No worries now that we are taking care of Lee with her. It is pretty cute. Now I do most of the heavy lifting along with Matt and the girls and Sandy, a neighbor lady we hired as his companion. So that leaves Adele to just enjoy his company. It is nice to see them lighten up and smile now that the stress is off.

Long Time No Publish

Well, I am back at least for now. Life has been a little hectic. My mother in law has cancer. She is in the medically frail category now and my father in law is in the advanced dementia category so.......the morning after the last screw was put in the new floor of the new studio space, I was in Emergency with my mother in law. That day my father in law moved into the old studio space and when my mother in law came home she moved in with him. Not too bad of an adjustment, but talk about close to the wire. At this point we are going through all the things necessary to start the chemo and radiation.
In all other news things are well. Horses moved down the road to a barn I will refer to as a mansion. For those of you not in the know, we adopted another horse, an older mare who is just perfect for the occasional riders in our entourage, but she is a VERY BIG girl. So rather than move her, we moved our other girls and now they are all residing in what I think is an old calf barn. And it sure is nice! We are adding stalls and making it horsey. With all the other stress, it sure is nice to have things so easy with the horses.
Dance is going well. The students love the new studio space. We do too. It now gives us the basement room we never had in our old farm house. So now we have the perfect space for any large gathering we have.
Well it is now fully daylight so I need to begin my very busy day. I promise more pics and writing on Burkina soon.