pops update
well i'm back in dothan again. of course i dont mind.. but a lot has gone on again. my pops is back in the hospital. this time its much worse. he fell 3 times from wednesday over to thursday. in the hospital they said he has fractured ribs, a possible broken leg, degenerative arthritis in his legs, alzheimers???, and they mentioned something about hodgkins disease. the alzheimers(?) is enough for us all, let alone the rest. but it makes sense. it makes a lot of sense and looking back explains a lot. well i havent slept again... i was here last night and i was up until i almost fell asleep sometime before 7am. pops called the house and woke everyone up. said he fell out of bed onto the concrete floor and no one has fed him in 2 days, he's starving, no one has come to check on him, that grandma hasn't been up there to see him yet, all kinds of stuff that isn't true. he ate yesterday, and grandma was with him all day yesterday. she said he ate good. we called the nurses station after he hung up and she said that he had a good night and no he didnt fall. i guess that was the alzheimers. why havent the doctors said anything about that??? as many doctors as he's seen and for everything else, why didnt they see it? and the hodgkins disease... he was around agent orange when he was in vietnam and he has come back with so many of the things they say have infected other veterans. why dont they get compensated for that? why doesnt the government have to do more for them? i mean, you see these guys coming back from Iraq (bless them, really) and they get so much praise and welcoming and benefits and this and that, but was that there for the vets coming back from Vietnam?? HELL NO. Have the vets from Vietnam been taken care of??? In my opinion, HELL NO. the VA hasnt done shit for pawpaw. not a damn thing. yeah he gets a little bit of disability, but he's not 100 percent yet.. why the hell not?? the guy cant walk, cant think straight, and has all of this going on wrong with him, and the gov't turns the other cheek. maybe i'm wrong, maybe i have no idea what i'm talking about, but i know that right now my family needs help from the VA to afford all of this. My pops told me, when he was in one of his understanding moods, that he has just enough to bury himself, thats it. nothing to take care of my grandma once he goes. what is she going to do? there is just so much to worry about now. so much. so damn much. how are we going to take care of him when he gets home, if he does? that want him to stay in a hospital bed, but i know he wont. he's too stubburn. he cant walk, but i know he's gonna try to get out of that bed every chance he gets and he'll keep falling. grams cant pick him up. i can barely pick him up. what are we going to do?