Thursdays are hard

So to qualify the above statement.... Tuesdays and Thursdays I am at one of my schools.. I have an 8 am and a 2pm. with nothing in between. thats hard. i find myself going stir crazy and justgetting bored. i fall asleep in between classes and hope no one has come into peek on me....

but the semester is going fine. it's already feeling like it's too long. but that will change i am sure.

mom is hoping to be coming home in a week or two. will have to see how that goes. grandaddy's memorial service i thinkis either this saturday coming up or they just had it on this past saturday. not sure.

rylan is feeling better.

and all i can htink of is how much i want to go home right now...

thats the latest and greatest.

that and how awesome is LOST although at night wasn't the best episode,. it was still a good one...

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the latest update on grandaddy

so the latest grandaddy update... a few days after he was taken off the respirator, he was put back on becuase they felt he was working too hard ot breathe. he consented to be put back on the respirator and feeding tube.
they found the specific virus that was causing allsorts of problems so they found the specific medicine to kill that virus. so hopefully he would be off the respirator in a few days.
few days passed. and they couldn't get the white blood cells to stop doubling. so his body still felt the need to fight and call in reinforcements. they flew him to phoenix from payson.
when they got to phoenix they did some work but basically told mom and grandmother to say goodbye. it might not happen that night but it would happen soon.
my sister called with the phone number into the hospital and what room he was in. within about half an hour? grandaddy died. mom and grandmother were there at his side. that was the 19th of january
they determined the germ that set in motion the pneumonia, was the same flu germ from the epidemic of 1918.
uncle randy and aunt betsy flew in form salt lake to phoenix and probably drove from phoenix to tonto. grandaddy's being cremated. he should be odne and ready to pick up tomorrow. billie june is done too, so they'll pick them both up. right now what everyone is doing is packing the house. grandmother wants to come home NOW. she is ready. billie june is gone. grandaddy is gone. she wants to go back to dalton. it sounds like the house in arizona is just going to be sold along with billie june's house.
they plan on being on their way in about ten days. pack the car full to the gills of stuff then have someone ship it out to dalton pa. mom and grandmother will fly to philadelphia or scranton from phoenix...

it just hit us hard. and to those who have been so kind to keep us in their prayers, thank you. you have no idea how much it means. my friend emailed me and let me know that she hadnt forgotten us or ignored us.. but that she had been in london for a few days, and prayed for us in westminster abbey... to quote her, "i know catholic isn't your religion or mine, but God is God no matter where you find him."

here at home everyone is still sick. rylan has influenza B. but he is making great strides. his fever has been gone for a few days... i have a sinus infection that came back for an encore, but antibiotics are good. tom may have to go back to the doctor because he is stll sick and can't shake the cough. but it's going to be ok.
but all in all, things are ok. classes are going well. i have one class full of guys so it's fun. i think all of them will be a lot of fun. so i have high hopes.

tree came down yesterday. we upt the room back together. i have been getting antsy about cleaning and tidying up and just eliminating unneccessaries..

unusually warm weather... i dream of a rose garden...

1/14/05

latest update on arizona:

grandaddy is off the respirator, breathing on his own. they took him off three days early. :)

grandmother was diagnosed with dementia three years ago and no one ever told us. mom has been in contact with grandmother's doctor out here and now knows what's going on... she's taking her meds again (grandmother) so things are doing better.

sara is working back at shadowbrook? no one is uite sure what's happening.. maybe they realized just how screwed they'd be if both their amazing MODs walked. but she is looking elsewhere.

not sure when mom is coming home. she has to be there to make sure grandaddy is ok to drive home and all. if grnadmother is taking care of gandaddy that's a bad thing... grandaddy has to be able to take care of her...

we start classes monday and tuesday. farewell to our beloved christmas break. and our tree is still up.

we had our neice here overnight. and today she wan't feeling wel. our fantastic dog, ellie, just laid in bed with kyla all day, keeping her company and making sure she was ok... all until kyla went home. she knew the little girl needed someone to love on.. i am amazed at the senstivity of our ellie and of dogs in general...

1/11/06

so the update on my mum. funeral/memorial service went fine.
monday the 9th my grandfather startd having toruble breathing. he has had emphysema for as long as i have known him and had lung cancer a while back.
the ambulance rushed him to the hospital in payson, and they immediately put him in ICU, on a respirator. Critical but stable condition.
during which time, my grandmother, who has always been a bit of the person who will tell you the same story three times in 30 minutes and not remember a lick of it (the doctors say it is in't alzheimers.. maybe just aging>? old age dementia?) has lost all of her short term memroy. probably by the stress of losing her sister and her husband getting sos ick so suddenly.
they found out also that while grandaddy was on the repsirator, yesterday, that he had a heart attack. they could tell by the enzymes in his blood.
and today was the day that everyone who came out for the funeral and memorial services, they all flew home. so my mom is holding down the fort with two sick parents, one very very ill, and one just worrisome...
she's out there all by herself and i just wish i could hug her and help her as much i could...

my sister lost her job today. they fired her because the place is basically going belly up. it just sucks for her and for them... she gave up some really lucrative positions to work where she has, and they just screwed her over.

i dont know about this area for jobs. i really dont.. it scares me more and more and i count my blessings each daythat I have a job that i love and i am good at. i pray that my husband will find a good job when he graduates and that things will go well...


thats all for today...

for james...

this is for james who moved away and can't remember what i look like.

:)

sad sounds

it has been alovely new years eve, new years day..

today rylan and i cleaned in the kitchensomemore. not just doing dishes type of stuff. reorganizing cabinets, cleaning things out, making it more user friendly.. all of that. thats part of our goal for the christmas break, to go through the house and clean, organize, simplify, all of that.

got a phone call yesterday morning. w oke us up actually. my great aunt billie june in arizona passed away very unexpectedly. massive heart attack. mom just talked to her on saturday and she was fine. monday she just hadn't beenf eeling very good, so she staye din bed. and my grandmother (billie june's sister) hung out with her, crocheted, tlaked all of that. and that night things got worse so they called the ambulance. the helicopter came to pick her up (in the desert when the closest hospital is over 90 miles away over the mountains, they come for you in a chopper and fly you there). billie june smiled and waved to grandmother as they strapped her to the board. and she never made it tot he phoenix hospital.
she had the heart attack in the helicopter and that was that.

billie june was always home base for everyone out west. she just always was. a stylish individualistic woman, with her own mind. one of the coolest ladies i have ever known. so it's really hard that she is gone so unexpectedly. and everyone in that family has gone that way: billie june and grandmother's brother had a massive heart attack. their father had a massive heart attack..,. i dont know about uncle george (billie june's husband).. but that's just the way it has gone.

so yesterday was also spent, aside form hanging out with mom and trying to comfort her, trying to find airfare for her tog et to phoenix for the memorial service and to help take care of things. finally found some and by some miracle, answer to a prayer, someone from the family called up mom and said "you're charging your place tickets to my credit card. here is the information." no questions asked. the same person is flying out cousin amy from colorado. same story. amy and mom arrive in phoenix within an hour of each other. its amazing how heavenly father works.

i talked mom through buying her tickets online last night. she read to me what the screen and web site said and i told her what to do. by midnight she had her ticket information and all of that.

i have defintely gotten hooked on using the readthe scriptures.com website for my daily reading material and the gospel doctrine lesson material. so i reccommend that to anyone looking for an alternative..

my boy is off to work. i am off to finish the kitchen, do some quilting and knitting (i am working on my first sweater) and do some writing... the snow is melting off.... and its a happy thing.