No Sympathy Please
well my long weekend turned into a long week. I foundout last friday that my grandfather, my dad's dad, passed away that morning. Yes I am upset, but not the way most people would expect. To make a very long story short, my grandfather kicked us out of the "family" because my mother would not take his verbal abuse and my dad his physical abuse any more. We had not spoken to him in over 14 years. I was mostly upset that things were left unsaid and unfinished. My dad and grandfather never settled things or reconciled. It was very hard to see the whole family, everyone he had kicked out (not just my family), together only becuase he had died, not apologized. Many people have good memories of him, Iwish I did. I hated him for many years becuase of what he did to my dad and to the rest of us. I eventually during collage wrote a paper about it all and made my peace. I decided not to be bitter and to hope and pray things would be made right. I decided to be one of the pall bearers as my way of saying "I forgive you."
To make my weekend longer Tigger (piglet) got sick with Broncitis. It almost turned into pnemonia. Luckly we got him into a Dr. We then were giving him breathing treatments of Albuterol every three hours. he went from wheezing like a coffee perculator to an occasional wheeze. Some days he sounded worse than others. And some he sounded fine. He would bounce from fine to not fine and the Dr.s would not approve him for the 8 hours car trip home. It was too long to be in the car with no treatment. This meant we did however get to spend more time with my grandmother. 14 years is a lot to catch up on. Middle school, high school, collage, dating, wedding, pregnancy. Now a baby. She loves Tigger. And it was wonderful to see her hold him. Hopefully I will be able to get to know her better over the next few years. Tigger was finally cleared for travel and we were able to come home on Friday. He is still doing the breathing treatments but we were able to get an inhailer for the car trip home.
I hope everyone has a good veterans day. I am glad for one more day off at home before heading back to work.
To make my weekend longer Tigger (piglet) got sick with Broncitis. It almost turned into pnemonia. Luckly we got him into a Dr. We then were giving him breathing treatments of Albuterol every three hours. he went from wheezing like a coffee perculator to an occasional wheeze. Some days he sounded worse than others. And some he sounded fine. He would bounce from fine to not fine and the Dr.s would not approve him for the 8 hours car trip home. It was too long to be in the car with no treatment. This meant we did however get to spend more time with my grandmother. 14 years is a lot to catch up on. Middle school, high school, collage, dating, wedding, pregnancy. Now a baby. She loves Tigger. And it was wonderful to see her hold him. Hopefully I will be able to get to know her better over the next few years. Tigger was finally cleared for travel and we were able to come home on Friday. He is still doing the breathing treatments but we were able to get an inhailer for the car trip home.
I hope everyone has a good veterans day. I am glad for one more day off at home before heading back to work.