So let me start this entry off in the way certain entries go once a month or so. Fucking cramps. Hate ‘em. Gah. Anyway…so much has been happening in the last week or so that I don’t even know where to begin.
Last Saturday I got a call at about 10:30 from my brother in law. That was weird enough in and of itself, and immediately made my heart sink into the deepest pits of my stomach. Good phone calls do not begin this way. It turned out that my grandmother was experiencing “complications” from the hip surgery she had just had, and while my Mom and her sisters were told not to panic “yet” they gave us grandkids the choice about whether we wanted to come down or not.
It took us about 4 and a half hours to get to Guelph. My girlfriend sped the whole way. That day my grandmother had 3 heart attacks, and was low enough on oxygen that she was seeing grasshoppers and thought everyone at the hospital (including her kids) was trying to kill her. We didn’t think she was going to make it through the night.
Apparently we underestimated her. By Monday she was out of ICU and in the step down unit. She’ll never get out of long-term convalescence, and likely won’t live past 6 months, but she’s certainly a fighter.

There’s more, but frankly I’m too tired and my writing is boring myself. Ergh.