So, tonight was Grandma's visitation. It was one of those nice, mostly awkward deals where I hardly knew anybody who came so I didn't talk to anybody. Miracle of miracles, all of my dad's siblings were civil and - dare I say it - nice to each other the entire time. Quite a change from the past couple weeks when a couple of them could barely ( Read more... )

My grandmother died this morning.

My dad is currently butting heads with some of my aunts and uncles over funeral arrangements and I just want to Gibbs-slap the hell out of all of them.

And to top it off my wireless mouse died.

FML.

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You know what, world?

I honestly do not give a fuck about Whitney Houston's death right now. Excuse me if I believe my grandmother dying is more important.

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So, it's been about a week and somehow Grandma's still with us. I've been up to see her a few times. According to her doctor she's only got weeks left (though just how many weeks is anybody's guess); she's supposed to go home at some point with full-time hospice care ( Read more... )

It's been nine months since my grandfather went into the nursing home, and I think I'm finally starting to come to terms with the fact that he's going to be staying there permanently. I'm pretty much just taking it one day at a time and trying to visit him as often as I can, partially because he's still with it enough that he called me out on it ( Read more... )

Well, the funeral was today. Surprisingly I haven't cried as much as I thought I would over this. I did some crying last night (at home, after I went to bed). At the funeral I didn't start crying until the soloist sang "In the Garden" (and I now have another song to add to my list of "Sad, Depressing, Weepy Songs"), and later I kinda-sorta broke ( Read more... )

She's gone.

Thank God.

My grandmother is dying.

Last week my grandmother went to the hospital complaining of flu-like symptoms and unable to keep food down. Monday she had surgery to remove a stone in her colon or intestine; she'd had her gallbladder removed, but apparently in rare cases your body can still create stones ( Read more... )