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I hope this helps. I have been going through this with my father. He is 82. He has had both knees replaced and when he was 79 he had quad bypass and a new heart valve. Well he plays golf 4 times a week and we WALKS the course.
I am totally amazed at how things have changed in Geriatric medicine. Heck he was up and walking the day after his heart operation.
It is really hard on them when they aren't mobile but I am sure she will be fine with the new hip. My Dad loves his new knees. After 45 years of pain it is all gone.
The problem with it is that it hurts US more than it does them.
Tell Grandma we send the best all the way from Canada.
 
:)

thanks, guys...

the next part is going to be the kicker, and i deeply, deeply pray will be the turning point.

gram did the entire hip replacement on a spinal,

but in the next 48, she'll have to actually go under for a dual vertebrae kyphoplasty.

from all accounts, this could be the kicker, the thing that gets her up and walking.

right now she can't even sit up by herself.

gram, her entire life, has been fiercely, proudly independent, lived out in the country all by herself the last 21 years as a widow, managing completely on her own; up until 3/6, she was actually still driving, albeit just to the store, post office, hair dresser and to church. [always the back country roads, no hwys]

if she can't walk, she can't be independent. if she can't be independent, i'm terrified she will give up on me...

if you could extend your mojos to the end of this week, i owe you a debt.

thank y'all for your support...

this weekend, the byproxy is coming in, but i see a trip back south in my immediate future. [and lots more in the next 6 months]

k
 
Childbride said:
if she can't walk, she can't be independent. if she can't be independent, i'm terrified she will give up on me...
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From the way you've described her, I can't imagine her just giving up--especially not when she's got people like you around. My grandpa is 92 and has had more hip and back surgeries than I've had hot dinners. He as tough of an old kraut as there possibly could be. I wish I didn't live nine hours away, though.
 
CB, mojo and prayers your way, both for strength for your Gram, and strength for you, Shiner and the family as you support her recovery.

It sounds like your Gram is one helluva lady. I wish her complete, quick and pain free recovery.
 
only have five minutes

just wanted to post gram out of surgery on back and by all accounts so far so good

y'all's mojo worked!

hope to talk to her later this evening

THANK YOU!!! :)
 
Good news CB thanks for letting us know,she is very fortunate to have you around for her.Prayers continued.Sumi:D
 
:)

i haven't even been on the computer for awhile, i've been so tied up every night... and i get on tonight to see y'all's continued support.

OG, thanks for asking.

it's been a roller coaster.

what was initially taken as a hunger strike turned out to be as simple as she has lost so much muscle strength she can't manipulate utensils well, and couldn't cut her food.

she goes through some petulance b/c she wants to go home. who wouldn't. i can't STAND being in the hospital. she gets frustrated. but she was on her back for over a month before they fixed the vertebrae, and mobility comes slowly after that... especially when you are 90.

she has her worst periods between 8 and 10 at night, that's when she slips a little with lucidity issues and wanting to just go home, being lonely and wanting her 'normal'.

but i talked to her for an extended period of time last night during that period, and she was with me, sharp, and determined. promised to do whatever it took to walk. she knows she can't go home to the country by herself w/o being able to walk.

it's day by day. but i believe in her. tough cookie. strongest woman i know. my role model when it comes to being strong, honest, moral, contributing to community...

she's been strong for me for 39 years. i'll be strong for her as long as it takes.

;)
 
tot_Ou_tard said:
Very cool CB. How are you holding up?
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i am learning what to let upset me and what not. and there's an awful lot to the story that i'm not telling, b/c it is family, and personal.

i am learning to be strong like her.

i pick my battles.

[edit: i'm fine. :D ]
 
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Hang in there CB...

The strength of Gram's character is within you too. No gift could be as meaningful as for you to be her loving strength in this, her time of need, as she's been yours all of these years. God doesn't burden you with more than you can handle. So lean on His strength, trust and believe, and you'll get through this together.

Continued prayers for your Gram....
 
Prayers for you and Gram from the PBP household. I am SMILING over your EDIT......as I had read the pre-edited version. :D Keep the faith my friend.
 
this weekend, i was with Gram.

she met me at the door, sans walker.

she is now walking, on her own, in the house. it is a cautious, careful walk... not her old carefree stride... but it's her.

outside, she mumbles under her breath with her walker as she scoots around with a brace on her wrist [they said i would never walk again, well they don't know me, do they?]

she can step out of her house down to the porch, all by herself.... a 10" drop.

she hauled herself up into my SUV multiple times while i was there, all by herself.

in april/may... i can't tell you what i went through watching her. i doubted this time. i thought she would never walk again.

i took my gram to have texmex, her first out-to-dinner since her first fall 3/6, and we both ate a plate of chicken enchiladas with a beer, and life was good. i can't tell you what it's like to crack jokes over a beer with your gram, who is two months shy of 91, other than it is something you carry in your memory forever.

da&*, she's a fighter. and one of my strongest role models in life.

again, i thank all of you for your support. :)
 
CB THAT IS GREAT NEWS! Gram is a fighter for sure from what you have told us and that is the way many of the folks are, they don't have quit in that head in most cases it's fight to the end. I wish her many more days of goodtimes and toast to the family times.
 
Hey, I just read this (a little behind) and I'm glad to know things are going well. Grandmothers are special people. I understand completely.
 
thanks, to all. :)

she just got back from a road trip that she took with paternal family... i was very anxious about it, in that the trip was six hours in the car one way.

she made the five day out of state 'vacation' just fine, and was thrilled to go.

this makes me more confident in accomplishing one of her favorite things... [she's actually been bugging me about it... i used it as an 'encouragement promise' when things were really bad after the falls and she wouldn't get up]

me going down there and retrieving her for an extended weekend up here.

her 91st bday is 10/3...
 

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