Sunday, December 31st, 2006
2006 Review
The year started off with me having emergency surgery after a pain-filled Christmas.
Next, My Grandmother finally got decent medical care through no fault of her long-time doctor. They found neuropothy in her hands, arms, feet, and legs (at least a decade after my mom’s diagnosis), mini-strokes (with everyone including my cousin the nurse saying there was something wrong in her head) spinal stenosis, and my favorite, Gall Bladder Cancer. As in, the whole organ was one big ball of cancer.
Next, at the end of April, my mom was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. They gave her a year. She died on August 8th.
Finally, towards the end of August, my other grandmother fell and broke her hip. She went to the hospital and had surgery, the went to rehab, where they found she had pneumonia. She went back to the hospital and back to rehab where they found she had a blockage in her stomach. So she went back to the hospital and they took it out and guess what it was? Cancer.
She spent Christmas trying to decide if she was going to have chemo or not. It did a real number on my mom and didn’t do much for her. When she wasn’t worrying about chemo, she was worrying about this being her last Christmas.
We all missed Mom so much. She loved Christmas. She loved shopping and giving presents far more than getting them.
2006 sucked
By Laura @ 6:20 pm in Home
