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My Life In Pieces [Spring 2019 Edition]


Bat Stitch Crazy

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Hey everyone!

I know it’s been a while since my last blog post so I thought now would be a good time to give everyone an update on what I’ve been doing since I last posted.

My last post was talking about a subscription box that allowed me to travel the world via snacks. As much as it pains me to admit it, I no longer have that subscription as I found the quality of some of the snacks wasn’t worth the money I paid. Plus I had one box that had about 5 snacks that I couldn’t eat because of an allergy to raspberries and it was the box I was looking forward to the most. (It was a UK box filled with crisps and a lot of raspberry biscuits and wagon wheels with sadly no tea to go with it)

Anyway since that post, I have had a lot going on in the home front with my family. Most of you don’t know this (I know my snakes do) but last year, before I stepped down as staff, my grandmother was hospitalized with pneumonia. When they ran some tests, they found a mass in her lungs, under her shoulder blade, and under her hip bone. Turns out that the mass in her lungs was cancerous and she was diagnosed with stage 2 lung cancer in January of last year. The other two masses were inaccessible and/or too small for a biopsy but there is a really good chance those are cancerous as well.

Y’all I’m not gonna lie to you. CANCER SUCKS!

While she is currently undergoing chemotherapy and seems to be handling the treatments well so far, there have been a few setbacks in the last month or so.

She has been having a lot of pain in her hip since about January and there were days where she could barely walk but being my grandmother, she brushed it off as arthritis or bursitis or some other -itis issue and just got a cortisone shot to see if it would help with the pain…it didn’t

Towards the end of February, my daughter got sick with Type A Flu. This had her laid up in bed for about a week because it took forever for the fever to break. Since then she has had a cough that won’t go away. I had to keep my daughter basically in quarantine for that week because my grandmother was due to have a chemo treatment a couple of weeks later in the middle of March. About a week after my daughter got better, and a couple of days before her treatment date, my grandmother started feeling bad. She is a stubborn 71-year-old lady and refused to go to the doctor despite running a low-grade fever and being exposed to the flu. She went ahead and went to her treatment and steadily went downhill from there.

For the next two weeks, we fought to get her fever to break with no luck and watched as she just got weaker and weaker. The pain in her hip kept getting worse and it got to the point that she wouldn’t get off the living room couch. Last Sunday, I finally put my foot down and called an ambulance to take her to the hospital.

Sure enough, she had the flu that developed into pneumonia due to the weakened immune system courtesy of the chemo that she probably shouldn’t have had, and she spent almost a week in the hospital in isolation. We also discovered that the tumor in her hip is pressing against her Saitic nerve and that’s what is causing her to be in so much pain.

While she is currently home(more or less), she is on oxygen and is still in a lot of pain. Right now we are trying to get either her oncologist or her primary physician to refer her to a surgeon to see about getting the tumor in her hip removed. And trying to get Medicare to continue to cover her oxygen. I’m currently trying to see if we can get her doctor to recommend home care so I can get certified to stay at home and help take care of her and still make money as an aide. I need a work from home job and if she has the help maybe she can actually come home instead of being at my aunt’s.

I’m not gonna lie Y’all, I think I’m going to lose my grandma in the very near future. I haven’t seen her since she left in the ambulance because of work and the fact that I’m dealing with a slight cough thanks to a sinus infection but when I talked to her on the phone today, she sounded so weak and unlike herself that it has me scared. Especially when I can’t shake the feeling that when she goes, my grandpa isn’t going to be far behind. He has been running himself into the ground between taking my daughter to school, taking me to work, spending the day with her, picking up my daughter from school, picking me up from work, and coming home to take care of things around here. I’m doing what I can but between work, school, and my daughter, I was so exhausted that Monday I hit a wall and slept literally all day.

We can’t keep up at the pace we have been forever but right now we don’t have a choice and it worries me what’s gonna happen when we can’t go anymore. I don’t know how much longer we can keep it together and it’s not gonna be pretty when we crash and burn.

Anyway, I’ve taken up enough of your time with my venting so I’m gonna close this out for now and hope that the next time I update you, It will be good news. Until next time.

Peace, Love, and Tacos

Tasha

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