The real reason I haven't been posting is because we had some pretty crappy stuff happen around here. While my parents were her visiting in February, we got a call that my Grandma Donna (mom's mom) was going to have to have heart surgery. We knew it was coming and thought it would occur while we were all down there on Spring Break. After some preliminary tests they determined that it couldn't wait and that they would need to do it on Wednesday.
My parents left Monday morning, a very sad event for Samuel. My mom flew to Florida Tuesday to be with my grandma, grandpa and aunt during the surgery. She arrived Tuesday evening around dinner and was able to spend time with everyone before Wednesday's surgery. Grandma was in good spirits then and was doing very well.
Wednesday morning they preformed a valve replacement and triple bypass on my grandmothers heart. Things went extremely well and she came out of surgery great. By Thursday morning she was sitting up and doing better than could be expected. We all breathed a sign of relief. Then Thursday afternoon, she look a bad turn. They rushed her back into surgery where they found that she had a small tear and had been bleeding internally. They corrected the problem, but then it became waiting time to see if she would recover from this second surgery.
By Friday afternoon there was no change. She was not waking up from surgery and not responding to anything. After several tests the neurologist determined that there was no brain activity and he could say with one hundred percent certainty that she would never wake back up. After many, many long hours of prayer the family decided to turn off her life support. My grandfather, two uncles, aunt and mother each had a time to say goodbye before she peacefully left us Friday afternoon.
Samuel and I spent the next several days planning our return to Michigan for the memorial service. For many days I sat in shock. When I was born I had all my grandparents and three of my great-grandparents. Our family has always been close and it seems that we have avoided loss pretty well. Something like this really puts life into to prospective and makes you rethink the way you live and they way you are in relationship with others. It sucks!
