06-14-2009, 06:31 PM
I just got home, and I am mentally and physically exhausted...
My grandmother had a stroke on Wednesday, not a really bad one, but it wasn't minor either. My parents took the liberty of not telling me until I got there on Friday. So my mother and I went and spent most of the evening with her on Friday. Luckily, she is not paralyzed, though she does have some motor function difficulty, but the doctors say that should come back 100%.
What was really affected was a part of her brain. She doesn't have any memory loss, which is good, but the part of her brain that controls logic (and in my sense what controls speech, like our internal dictionary) is messed up. She can talk and carry on a conversation, but there are words and names she can't remember, but she knows what they are, but she will say something else and confuse herself. Its really frustrating for her since she likes to talk.
Also, my parents themselves are at a bit of breaking point. My mother is renting a trailer for a few months to get some time away from my father, though it turns out to be a bit of blessing since she will have to spend a lot of time with my grandmother when she comes home since she can't be left by herself for awhile. Anyway, just a lot to take in over the course of two days.
Now I'm just gonna rest for the remainder of the day, and I'm not going to work tomorrow for my own sanity.
My grandmother had a stroke on Wednesday, not a really bad one, but it wasn't minor either. My parents took the liberty of not telling me until I got there on Friday. So my mother and I went and spent most of the evening with her on Friday. Luckily, she is not paralyzed, though she does have some motor function difficulty, but the doctors say that should come back 100%.
What was really affected was a part of her brain. She doesn't have any memory loss, which is good, but the part of her brain that controls logic (and in my sense what controls speech, like our internal dictionary) is messed up. She can talk and carry on a conversation, but there are words and names she can't remember, but she knows what they are, but she will say something else and confuse herself. Its really frustrating for her since she likes to talk.
Also, my parents themselves are at a bit of breaking point. My mother is renting a trailer for a few months to get some time away from my father, though it turns out to be a bit of blessing since she will have to spend a lot of time with my grandmother when she comes home since she can't be left by herself for awhile. Anyway, just a lot to take in over the course of two days.
Now I'm just gonna rest for the remainder of the day, and I'm not going to work tomorrow for my own sanity.
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