my grandma had a seizure

[krisamata]

grrrr

things with my grandparents are getting so much harder.
i cant take this.

my grandma is in the final stage of alzheimers...its been so extremely hard to deal with.
and now we found out tonite she had a seizure..so far shes fine.
but they cant figure out why she had it.

my grandpa said he wanted to kill himself the other day.
he's in a hospital right now because he cant take care of himself anymore.

they've been married for 60 years...and hardly see each other...they havent lived together for a couple of years now because my grandma was moved into a home.

its so hard.

the one thing that brings a smile to my face..is on christmas day when they were sitting beside each other and my grandma reached over and grabbed my grandpas hands...and there they sat holding hands.

so sweet.

why cant people live out their last years happy ?

[mojo]

tell them you love them ok

[krisamata]

i do every chance i get.

[tufflove]

ym dad has four of them a day
its not only old people that suffer

[c.tard]

^ no one said it was only old people that suffer. people of all ages suffer, so do animals. my dog is epileptic..


krista, isn't there any way your family could arrange more time for them to be together?

[krisamata]

we try to arrange as much time as possible

but its so hard, they're both in vancouver, my uncle does dick all...
my mom has to work a 50 hour week and try to take care of them...

she was doing really well with getting them together once a week

but then for about a month or more no one was allowed in or out of my grandmas home because of a flu.

and my grandpa never wants to go out anymore.

its so hard

apparently they did the catscan today and then found something, but they had to sedate my grandma so they could look some more, but she woke up and started fighting with everyone, it took 6 people to hold her down....

apparently because of the alzheimers , her brain is literally shrinking and now shes more prone to seizures

her head is all black and blue.

ohhh mann...

[c.tard]

^ ya i can understand it being difficult to get them together, as long as you are trying though. it's still rough. :(

[*KeLLnEsS*]

Some people have numerous seizures every day of their lives

[mugsy]

i have watched each and every one of my older relatives suffer before they passed away, and as horrible as it sounds, it made it easier on me, because they truely needed the rest when their time came. no one knows why people have to suffer, i blame scientific evolution... however without the chemo that made my grandma severely ill for the remaining two years of her life, my dad would not be upstairs listening to his old beatles records right now. with out the radiation treatment that made my grandma even more sick my mom wouldnt be sleeping upstairs. i curse all of our advances, but i love them at the same time.
no one enjoys seeing a loved one suffer, wether it be a scraped knee or a stroke or the loss of memory. its terrible and i wish only wonderful days fro your grandparents.
why doesnt your grandfather move into the home with your grandmother? if i remember correctly there were a couple of couples at my great-grandmas nursing home.
again, wishes of wonderful days.

[krisamata]

kell...i know that.


mugsy...i have pretty much the same view as you do

and we're trying to get my grandpa in the same home, but as horrible as this sounds....we have to wait for someone to die first so he can get in there.

[tufflove]

i wasn't being rude
good luck with that krista
give her lots of love
thats whut she needs
sometimes grandmas feel they dont deserve it
but thats all she needs

[krisamata]

i know you werent ash

[tufflove]

ok good
sometimes i come across wrong

[krisamata]

^^^ i know you

its all good.