Little By Little

Sorry about not updating. Life is crazy these days - work is kicking my butt - so I am not doing much but playing simple video games so that my brain can just calm down.

Visited the G'parents today after church, G'ma was sitting in the living room watching the Superbowl. She looks REALLY good, but is still frustrated with how 'slowly' she feels she's progressing. She did a few of her exercises while I was there, but is relying on others to remind her to do them, and since it's a house of forgetful there, I have a feeling she doesn't do them often enough. But with everything going on you can't fault them for not keeping everything running smoothly.

G'ma shared with me that several of their fellow church members have come over to visit and help out around the house - mainly with cleaning. Thank you so much to their Church family at Change Point! God will bless you for your ministry to our family!

Jeff was cooking superbowl goodness when I got there, and g'pa was off delivering something to someone lol. Talked with Gpa after he got back about the Iditarod and if he was going to run the Tudor Trail Guard or how he wanted to go about that. Looks like we're going to run it in tandem this year (with Jim Steele's blessing of course - Jim is the head of that department of volunteers). Told him I'd do anything he needed. He's not sure he will actually make it down to the event, but I think it would be good for him (biggest concern is we don't know how to get gma INTO the motorhome as it's not big enough for her wheelchair and she's not strong enough to climb the steps). I'm sure we can get it worked out, though.

Anywho, like I said, G'ma is doing really well and she seems more like her self this time around. (She was constructively critisizing Carrie Underwood's singing during the preshow stuff) So it's going pretty well.

Update on Grandma's Surgery

I'm sitting here with my grandpa in the waiting area at Providence. Grandma's surgery went well and we're just waiting for a room to get ready to take her. She will be back to the Neurology unit (same area she was first taken to after the emergency).

So we're just hanging here waiting on news. As far as I know everything looks okay. She really went into surgery at 9:15am and got out at 11:45, so I didn't miss much as far as news while I was at work. I have an awesome bunch of people I work with and for as they've been incredibly supportive this last month. I have the rest of the day off so I came over and took g'pa to lunch and I'll probably hang out here for a while after Grandma gets a room.

The clot was fairly large/thick and it had a lot of calcium build up. Not sure what that all means, but it sounds like they got it out. So that's a good thing, right?

They want g'ma to go home soon after she recovers from this, but grandpa doesn't feel she's ready. She's still not able to support her weight on her left food and she's too ornery to just sit in her wheel chair (no surprise there, right). He's going to try to talk the dr/hospital into giving her another week in rehab. So will keep you updated as we learn more.

G'pa is on the phone with people giving updates. So I'm just keeping this blog updated. Thank you for all of the prayers and support and emails. It's greatly appreciated by all of us!

Love in Christ!

Home for the Holidays

So the gist of what's going on is this:

Grandma will be in the hospital through the first part of January. She has a surgery to remove the clot scheduled for January 5, 2010.

She will get to come to the Family Dinner Christmas DAY which will be at my aunt Judy's house (she's my mom's sister, and an "adopted Reitter" of sorts for my grandparents. They even refer to her as one of their daughters lol)

I am not sure if she will be at the Reitter household for Christmas Eve?

My parents, brother and the two dogs will be travelling to Anchorage from Kenai on Tuesday. They'll be here through Christmas :)

So that's what's going on at the moment. My mouth is healing nicely. Oral Surgeon is very happy with how it all looks, and I should be able to eat what I want come Christmas dinner! score!