I just got off the phone with my dad, so here is the latest update. Grandma is doing very well. She's off the IV and morphine drip, she's off the oxygen. She has the oxygen near her to use when she needs it, but it's not a constant thing anymore. They are saying that she COULD go home, but they don't want her to. This is where my irritation with Canada's universal medicare system comes into play. THe good side is that they don't have to pay for the hospital stay, or any of the stuff that they do to her. The DOWN side, is that because the gov't controls the pay for doctors, there's not enough of them, and people want unneccessary surgeries, andthe whole thing gets backed up. Remember, it took my mom THREE YEARS to get foot surgery done to realign her toes properly. Well, they want Grandma to have an angiogram. Not because she's critical, if she was critical it would be done right away, but more as an exploritory thing to make sure everything is ok. If she stays in the hospital, it can be done in about 2 weeks. If she goes home, they're looking at more like a month. So, the docs want her to stay in the hospital.
Now comes the problem. Grandma is ok, but she's still in the hospital. My folks are trying to figure out if it's ok to leave and come down here for their planned visit. Also, Grandpa is being difficult. He COULD stay at home and take care of himself without much help, but he won't. He wants my folks to stay in the city with him and have mom make all his meals, etc. Needless to say, my folks know they can't do that. The problem is, even tho my Aunt and Uncle live in the city, we all doubt that Grandpa will be willing to go stay with them until Grandma is home and functional again. So as of today, my folks have no idea when they're going to be getting down here, which really sucks what with migration coming up.
So please still keep Grandma in your thoughts, keep my folks and my aunt and uncle in your thoughts so that they don't kill grandpa, and pray that grandpa realizes that he's going to have to be a little more flexible.
Kiersten
