Another Challenge

E faces another health challange. It is scarey to think how his health has changed these last few years. He is facing a pretty serious infection, an infection I have lost a distant cousin to in the past. We are in a waiting game to see if the antibiotics will clear it up right now. I have been trying to get him to have his leg looked at for a month, but now both legs are affected and not looking good, along with some other health issues that have resulted from the infection. I hope that he can make a recovery. I feel tired, anxious, overwhelmed, and a little lost right now. This is out of my control, out of what I can "wiggle my nose" and make better. I dont like this feeling.

Life Flight!?!?

Over the weekend I recieved a call from my brother who informed me "something is wrong with grandma, I dont know, just something is wrong. Kirsten answered moms cell phone and something is wrong!" at that point he hung up on me! Yeah freak attack! So I called my mom's cell and got my cousin Kirsten. She said that my grandma had passed out and she was awake now that maybe it was altitude sickness. I did not want to make a 2 hour drive for a slight case of altitude sickness, although the fact that she passed out did concern me. I did have a nagging feeling in my gut that I needed to get ready to go "just in case". So I preceded to get dressed, find a cell charger (because one never has enough cell battery charge for emergencies), and run a brush through my hair. At about that point my phone rang and it was Kirsten telling me they were calling in Life Flight and that CPR had been done to bring grandma back. Well then I pretty much flew out the door while barking orders to Eric on who to call and so forth. He stayed home and called my brother. As I backed out of the driveway I sent a group text to all other family members on what was going on. That was one of the longest two hour drives I have EVER had in my life. No updates on her condition, just worry and hope she was there when I got there. She was! I finally arrived and my mom took me into grandma's ER room and she said "what are you doing here?" I told her she was in the hospital where else would I be? She then made the comment "I'm not dying! Well okay I did die, but I'm back now." So there ya have it, I am having a nervous break down and she is crackig jokes in the ER within an hour of being life flighted. It turns out she did not have CPR, Kirsten was a little shaky on details because she didnt see everything, she had to get the little kids out of the area because it was scaring them very badly. Grandma did stop breathing and was given mouth to mouth by a very wonderful off duty ski patrol guy who she literally had fallen onto when she fainted. She came home from the hospital yesterday. She is doing well and needs to follow up on some things, but is her same ole self. Whew! That was a little too close for comfort. We joked that she just wanted a helicopter ride and a family gathering, but that there were easier ways to get both. My cousin Casey even took pics of grandma being loaded into the chopper and got video of her taking off in the chopper. She watched the video while still in the ER. She already complained she had to lay down and couldnt see much. I am ready for a little less stress. Until next time, luvs ya!