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Things have changed drastically since yesterday. First, my grandmother does NOT have a urinary tract infection... apparently her bloodwork came back negative on that. Second, although she does have the bleeding in the brain still, she is going to be coming home tomorrow. We're going to have to monitor her blood pressure ourselves, but other than that there were no special instructions from the hospital. She's not a candidate for neurosurgery due to her age, weight, and the terms of her living will which specify no artificial means of life support (which would be necessary during a brain operation, apparently), so it's something that will either have to heal on its own or not heal at all. The doctor we spoke to today said we just need to watch for symptoms like paralysis of any of her limbs or complaints about headaches, and to keep an eye on her blood pressure too with a simple machine we can purchase at like CVS or someplace.
Honestly, I'm kind of freaked... I think that they're sending her home way too soon given the fact that her BRAIN is BLEEDING. Call me crazy, but if I were a doctor I think I'd want someone in that condition under proper medical supervision. On the bright side (possibly), the hospital is talking about seeing about getting us some home nursing for her... we'll see if it goes any better than it did last time, I guess, but I'm not expecting much to come from it.
In other news, I will be getting my laptop soon, a fact which I am fervently grateful for... my father gave me a check today to cover the cost of it, which I'm just waiting to clear in my bank account so I can order my computer on the apple website. From there it's only two or three days till it will be delivered. I'm really looking forward to it... I keep finding out about more aspects of OS X which I want to try out. I'm even looking forward to the built-in text-to-speech features... it sounds absolutely perfect for when I'm working late at night or have a headache and I want to rest my eyes for a bit but still look up information, even granting the fact that there will be occasional mispronunciations to deal with.
And I've definately passed into the realm of babbling here, so that's enough for this entry. ;-)
Honestly, I'm kind of freaked... I think that they're sending her home way too soon given the fact that her BRAIN is BLEEDING. Call me crazy, but if I were a doctor I think I'd want someone in that condition under proper medical supervision. On the bright side (possibly), the hospital is talking about seeing about getting us some home nursing for her... we'll see if it goes any better than it did last time, I guess, but I'm not expecting much to come from it.
In other news, I will be getting my laptop soon, a fact which I am fervently grateful for... my father gave me a check today to cover the cost of it, which I'm just waiting to clear in my bank account so I can order my computer on the apple website. From there it's only two or three days till it will be delivered. I'm really looking forward to it... I keep finding out about more aspects of OS X which I want to try out. I'm even looking forward to the built-in text-to-speech features... it sounds absolutely perfect for when I'm working late at night or have a headache and I want to rest my eyes for a bit but still look up information, even granting the fact that there will be occasional mispronunciations to deal with.
And I've definately passed into the realm of babbling here, so that's enough for this entry. ;-)
