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I made Angel Chicken (my standard crockpot meal) and strawberry yogurt muffins and brought those to the hospital along with plastic odds and ends to eat with/on and a kool-aid type stuff.
My main concern was that there wouldn’t be enough food. I needn’t have worried. Seems like the others aren’t much more [...]

How near is clarified day by day.
On the off-chance that anyone is still following this story, here is the update through today.
What’s the reverse of exponential? I can’t remember. But Grandma is declining that way. Benjamin is the only family member who hasn’t yet arrived. He comes in tonight.
Is it hugely [...]

That’s what Grandma said Friday when Mom told her she (Gma) probably has cancer in her blood.
The doctor has sent her bone-marrow samples off to a different lab to see why the cancer didn’t show up in the earlier test, and to confirm this diagnosis. (This is my understanding of things).
Doctor Carroll has said that [...]

Being in the hospital is definitely affecting Gma’s mind (and her state-of-mind), and we’d all like to bring her home, but it would require Ruth (Ewig) and me ramping up our level of commitment to Mom’s scale. My being with her all of every morning, Ruth all of every afternoon, and Mom continuing to pull [...]

The biggest concern right now is that Gma’s body is not absorbing the extra fluid in her abdomen.
For the last week, ever since the surgery–so more than a week– Gma has had a “drain” in her, to siphon off the fluid/blood that collected in her abdomen after the operation. They took it out Wednesday [...]

One of the Doctors diagnosed something called ITP as the reason for Gma’s low blood-count. The treatment is steroids. As I understand it, they give your system a kick in the pants and try to re-start/reset the body’s levels.
Well, she’s been undergoing that treatment (diagnosed/prescribed by Dr. A) for days, and it’s had [...]

(pre-timed again)
Well, with all the stuff about Gma I’ve not had time to post what’s been happing at home. Starting with the youngest (I’ve been with him the most lately):

Elisha

is smiling, laughing and “talking” now
Has an incredible attention span: He spent 15 or [...]

Lets see, it’s been a week since I posted here. The list version:

Gma had to undergo physical therapy to get walking again, but with hard work and a strong will, she has made great progress. She is now mobile with a walker, and as she [...]

(I’m pre-timing to keep Gma’s latest at the top)
Toastmasters came up again this weekend, since it comes up every week. We, Jay and I, have been doing a jugging act with responsibilities. We’ve definitely come up with a current hierarchy of priorities:

Our (core) family of five
Next level of family: Gma Mom [...]

I’ve decided that’s what the “we’re not out of the woods yet” phrase means.
And that’s the phrase Mom has applied to Gma’s current condition. Tests continue to report a low blood count, and that is troubling to the doctors, since that should have improved by now.
They will be doing a bone-marrow test/check (whatever [...]