numbness
my grandmother is dying. i feel completely numb. she fell and broke her ankle somewhere around the beginning of last semester, and then she recently fell again at the nursing home and broke her hip. now she's experiencing kidney failure, and we have no idea how long she has left. all she wants is to go home, and our fucking medicalized society won't hear of her going home to die peacefully in the house she and her late husband raised their children in while surrounded by her family. why the fuck not? There's nothing they can do for her right now, and yet she's in a hospital, crying to go home, hooked up to machines that aren't doing anything for her.
i'm glad i saw her on Thursday, but I think I'm going to ask for some time off so that I can go home and be with her tomorrow. what else is there to do?
love is appreciated.
i'm glad i saw her on Thursday, but I think I'm going to ask for some time off so that I can go home and be with her tomorrow. what else is there to do?
love is appreciated.