Update on My Grandma

I've had so many people asking me how my grandma is... And I just don't know how to answer that question.



She's alive. That's great! She has some use of her left side - very very minimal. Cannot stand. Her smile is fine and her speech is normal.



Her eyesight, though, is pretty impaired (left sided neglect) and her thought process is a little slower than normal, but once she processes the question or comment she hears, she is able to respond just as intelligently as always! The nurses keep asking her what her name is and she's so sick of it, she makes up a silly name. I've decided rather than asking her what her name is, to ask who the President of the United States is. She's happy to answer that one!!! BUT she is now living her worst nightmare. Suffering a stroke and living dependent on others was something she talked at length about the last several years with my mom and aunt. And now here she is.



It's heartbreaking, to say the least. Literally heartbreaking.



I tell ya what, though. This great woman has such a positive attitude. I'd look over at her, thinking she was sound asleep only to find her trying to lift her left arm, making a fist, touching each finger to her thumb, opening and closing her hand! She is such a fighter and nothing makes me more proud than my Gram.



I spent 7 nights in a row with her in her hospital room. Last night was my first night back home in my own bed and I missed her with a passion.



Thank you all for your concern, prayers, thoughts, calls, texts, emails, and most importantly, your love. My grandma is buoyed up by so much love.



♥