The only surgery that would have helped my grandma was something she was too weak to go through. She said it her self she didn't want to do that and the doctors said she had a high rate of perishing if she went through with it. They set my grandmother from the nursing home to another hospital and that night could have been her last after they put her under to insert an IV into her neck (she kept pulling the ones out of her hand because she was so confused). Everything in her body was malfunctioning to the point she could have died that night. After the IV she fell into a self induced coma so they decided to sedate her keeping her under. When I got to see her she was hooked up to so many machines, it was something you see on tv. Everything was just keeping her alive. In the family meeting her doctor told us that if the medication was not working by Tuesday they were turning everything off and letting her die peacefully.
Tuesday came and the doctors told us all to be there at 1:30 pm. I went to school and got my stuff and my dad got me then we went to the hospital. The moment came and everyone who could make it needed to be there and they started shutting the machines off and we all surrounded her. When they took the breathing tube out of her mouth she smiled and it wasn't just a reflex because she could hear everything. Before when they were changing her breathing tube they asked her to open her mouth and she did as much as she could which wasn't much but she could hear. She even smiled when my dad called my brother just so he could talk to her and tell her how much he cared about her because he wasn't able to be there. We all cried and laughed and told stories that she would never have found out about. It was bittersweet, I still wish she didn't have to go through that. She always did what she could for every and anyone. Seeing her like that broke my heart and it still does. Her sister stuck by her side as soon as she was taken to the hospital, she even spent the night to care for her in a way doctors and nurses couldn't. I'm glad she was there too we we couldn't be there, my grandma was never lonely the whole time she was there.
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Losing my grandmother
Cerita PendekI just wanted to share my story about how I lost my grandmother recently and all the other things that have happened after her passing and how I felt. This is very detailed for the most part and messy but it's how I felt and feel.
