Please Keep My Grandmother In Your Thoughts & Prayers

The good news is the heat was still working last night when I got home. The bad news is that while I was sitting watching tv with my hubby, my dad called to tell me that they had to put my grandmother in the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, and he thought I should know that she was to have surgery Friday afternoon.

Here's the story behind it. About a week before we all headed to Florida to visit (my grandmother lives with my parents because she's 97 years old - although up to this point, she was doing AWESOME for her age), my grandmother got up in the middle of the night and went to get a drink of water and tripped and fell. She had been complaining that her leg was hurting but at first it just seemed like she bruised it and pulled a muscle. When we were all there, she was still complaining about it hurting so my dad decided to take her to the doctor to get checked out. They took x-rays and said that it was mostly just bad arthritis and a possible compression fracture from the bones jarring together but that she should be fine in a few weeks. They got her a cool walker (she called it her Mercedes because it was so fancy!) and we thought everything would be okay. We all went to Orlando and she seemed to do really well being pushed around in the wheelchair and even using her walker. When we got back, she started complaining again that the pain medication wasn't helping and she was getting stiff. So my dad decided to take her back again to get checked out. They took more x-rays and apparently the compression fracture had turned into a hip fracture. Because she is so old and her bones are so delicate, the top of her femur bone (the long bone in your thigh) was started to disintegrate in the socket of her hip. So they decided they needed to book her in the hospital and today she is supposed to have surgery to have a new plastic & metal top of her femur bone and ball to fit into her hip socket (luckily that part is okay). Because of her age, they don't want to give her anesthesia so she will have some sort of spinal thing (I'm guessing like an epidural when you're pregnant where you just lose feeling from your waist down or whatever). After staying in the hospital for the weekend, she will have to do a few weeks of physical therapy to get used to her new contraption and that all depends on how quick she is to work at it - could be anywhere from 1 to 3+ weeks.

I am trying really hard not to worry about it because my dad didn't seem too concerned about it when he was talking to me last night and at least they have a plan. However, I woke up randomly about 3:30 in the morning last night and didn't really sleep much after that because I kept thinking about it and worrying. I hate that!

So all this to say, please if you get a chance, hold my grandmother in your thoughts and prayers today and for the next few weeks as she works to continue her great health. I'm hoping she will make it to at least 100!!! :) Thank you all for your kindness and support! I promise to write something happier later in the day!