g-pa's health I'm sitting here at work, trying to keep myself awake and even though I'm so damn tired I could easily fall asleep in this chair.... I've been thinking alot about my grandpa's ailing health. Now, don't get me wrong, he's as active as you can get for a man in his late 80s/hitting early 90s. Frequently tends to his, oh, 3 or 4 different gardens, goes for daily walks in the neighborhood etc., but last year he was diagnosed with emphysema (sp?) and they put him on a breathing apparatus called a Nebulizer (sp?)..... to which he HATED. anyways, as long as he's taking the breathing treatments all has been well but acouple nights ago when the weather was super he went outside and pulled weeds in one of his many gardens and when he came in... well to be honest- he looked awful! He immediately skipped dinner and went to rest in his bedroom but he coughed several times so bad that his face turned bright red :( :( Since that time (acouple days ago) he has been having extreme difficulty in breathing, the treatments not working either.... so i wonder now what? They had diagnosed with emphysema (as earlier mentioned) but they had also mentioned something called CoPD (or something similiar to that) but they said eventually there will come a time when there is nothing they can do for him.... so i assume and it was clarified that he would die from this. Which leads me to wonder... is this the beginning of them not being able to do anything for him? *Sigh*. As if the man didn't have enough to deal with-- back in the early 80s he had throat cancer and they removed his voicebox..... I'm just really worried that he won't make it to the end of this month. True, I always worry like this but his comments were what scared me because he seemed to be so brutally honest and he's only like that when he knows the truth about how he's feeling. Fucking Blah!! |