The Husband's Grandma

So the husband and I aren't doing too well with the Grandma's.

As you'll remember about a month ago my grandma passed away, quite suddenly.

Today the husband's grandma passed away. This on the other hand wasn't suddenly. She's been in a lot of pain the past 4-5 years, and really we are surprised she held on this long. When I first met my husband his grandpa was in the hospital for some heart problems. About a month into our dating he passed away. It was hard for my husband because he was very close to his Grandpa, his middle name is this the same as his grandpa's first name (and if we ever have a son his middle name will be the same - LaCon).

I am glad I got to meet his grandpa even if it was in a hospital bed and I'm not sure if he even remembered me. But I have gotten to know his grandma pretty well. It's always been hard for us to visit her. She's always in so much pain and her medical problems are pages long. But when we do visit it's always pleasant and we try to take her mind off her hardships. In the past year her health has failed quite a bit. She was no longer able to take care of herself and the cost of in-home 24 hour nurses was just too much for herself or the family to afford. So they sold her house and moved her into a nursing home. Unfortunely her health faded even faster once she was in the nursing home.

Saturday my husband got a call from his Mom letting him know that Grandma was in a lot of pain and they didn't think she was going to live much longer. She was in the hospital and they were just medicating her until she passed on. So the husband and I went to visit her and say our goodbye's on Sunday afternoon.

It was a lot harder for me to see her so thin and weak, laying there in the bed. She was sleeping so we left a note that we would come back a little bit later. Upon leaving the hospital we ran into the husbands uncle and aunt. They said we needed to go back up and wake Grandma up, because she is always asleep. Luckily they were on their way up as well, so they woke her up. It was really hard. I never got the chance to say goodbye to my grandma, so seeing my husband leaning over the bed to tell his grandma that he loved her was too much for me to handle. Yeah I bawled. But I'm glad he got the chance to see her one last time. By the end I was able to say goodbye to her as well.

So we will have a funeral to go to either the end of this week or beginning of next week.