Happy New Year's Eve, prayers please for grandma

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The plows come two by two hoorah hoorah... we're plowed out from the last 10-12" we received. Well, the main streets and stuff are and our neighborhood was today. Not sure how much of the city still needs plowed to consider it over for this round. I shoveled for 2.5 hours Wednesday night to get the walks and drives cleared and things really went better this time considering the city laid off 6 workers from the streets dept on Christmas day. It really was a shovelrama. I'll have to find out how we have faired for this winter considering November was record-breaking snowfall here. We've seen snow into June before LOL but I hope it does not go that late into next year!

I am certainly keeping everyone in the NY/NJ/PA area in my prayers and then What The Heck, I come online and my news page say there are tornadoes and such somewhere? Oh goodness I hope everyone is doing ok everywhere.

My grandma is 85 (ish) and has been deteriorating quickly this past few weeks. I mean REALLY! She's been in the ER *several* times because she falls and hits her head or they're concerned because of her blood thinners and such.

She has a "boyfriend" of 25-30 years that she's been living with and his daughter up here to go to school, but they can only do so much, they have to sleep too, etc and God bless them they're doing the best they can (I always root for the underdog). My mother goes over pretty much every day to help out, give him a little break and stuff, but she's not healthy either and it's going to keep her sick or make her worse, so I'm like "maybe it's sad, but maybe it's time for grandma to go into an assisted living/retirement type home/community" ya know? I know they want their freedom as long as they can, but sometimes you need to step back and ask for help.

Mom was calling to find out about those life alert services so at least if she falls, she can call for help if they're not there.

So, then she (mom) decided we have to have someone come in and help at least 4 hours a day, so she lined that up to start Monday, so this nursing type person can help get grandma up and around, bathed, meals, medicines, etc to help out.

Not sure what happened Friday, but my aunt is the one that gets to make the medical decisions and mom is like "can you make the decisions you need to" so my uncle-in-law went over Friday and he said he would be the power of attorney by end of day so that is good, my aunt doesn't have to make any decisions and have brothers/sisters upset with her. Said at the very least she needs 24 hr assistance, so they arranged for someone to go over last night at 8 p.m.

BUT then they had to take her to the ER again last night and they kept her over night and from there, today, she IS going to an assisted living place to be assessed to see "what care she needs" and if it can be from home or if it needs to be in the facility.

I'm glad my grandma is going to have the care she needs.

I'm glad my mom can have a rest now and if she wants to go "visit" every day she can without the "worry" about if Gene will fly out the door on some "errand" or other leaving her there to grannysit (trust me, it's happened)...

There's where the prayers are needed, that the family can get through the decision making process of this new year's weekend and next week. And to really accept what could be coming down the pike with grandma. I'm not a cold hearted so and so, but I accept the fact that she's lived a good long life and is getting sick more and more and it could be time for her to not be with us soon....

Me, I'm doing ok. Very glad for the day off today as a holiday. I'm sad with my and Jay's break-up, especially since it happened two days after Christmas, but you know... long distance relationships are very hard and this has been brewing for quite some time, honestly... I just don't post about it much on here.

I see my knee surgeon's office in 2 weeks on Jan 12th. Remember I fell on/around Thanksgiving when we had that big snow storm, well it's been sore and bothering me ever since and I know there is some healing factor from the surgery in the first place and now the fall, but doing 10 minutes worth of exercise should not have me biting my tongue to not swear my way through it, so I am going in for a re-check..... maybe it's time for a different round of exercise/stretching/PT...

All-in-all, 2010 wasn't the most horrible it could have been... 2011 will be a grande year, I'm hoping! I am very excited to see my oldest "baby" graduate from high school and go off to college life this next year! BIG sighhhhhhhhhhh.... they grow so quickly!!

In parting, I want to give you a New Year's thought, I saw this quote somewhere and I think it is just awesome:

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called OPPORTUNITY and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Have a great day today, friends, be safe, dry, warm, etc and Happy New Year!

Hugs,