Please Keep Sommer and her family in your prayers..

Just talked to Sommer and her DH grandma is really sick they only give her a few days or few hours.. her b/p is down to 85/or something.. and she hasn't eatten in 5 days... they don't give her long... she is 98 years old...


Sommer, we said a prayer for you all, hang in there if you need anything let us know.. Thinking of you all...

 

Thanks Kris..

We are trying to stay in good spirits and look for the positives.

 

I am so sorry, Sommer. Will be praying for you.

HUGS

 

Thanks Leslie.

Everytime the phone rings now my heart goes into my throat!

 

Praying for you and your family.

 

Hugs Sommer and keeping you in my prayers.

 

Hugs!!! I will be keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers! :love:

 

Praying here, too, Sommer!

 

Kris, make sure you let her know you told us, and we're all praying for her and the family!

 

Prayers here, Sommer!

 

Thanks everyone! We made it through the night with no phonecalls!!!

I was awake most of the night listening for any signs of something going on here on the mountain. Almost everyone up here is family, and grandma is our oldest living resident up here on the mountain. She still lives in the farm house. She is a very spunky old woman, who has lived a very long and fullfilling life. She has round the clock care for over a year now because she has been in failing health.

She hasn't eaten or drank anything in 6 days now. Hubby spent a few hours down there last night and if she is still hanging on will spend most of tonight there as well. I will keep the kids home, I don't want them to remember her as she is right now, although Garrett did go down with daddy last night. The kids were there with me last spring when my aunt passed away, that was confusing enough on their little brains, they don't need that shock again.

Sorry for rambling.. Thanks for all the prayers and hugs. I am really terrified of going through this with hubby, he was very close to his grandma. He lived with his grandparents for a while and worked on the farm most of his life until after highschool. I can see this is already taking it's toll on him.

Please pray that he has the strength emotionally to get through this, and I have the strength to give him more than enough support.

 

Sommer, it is good that he has had this time with her. When my gm passed it was so sudden that we had no time to prepare. She had just left our house to walk to her house next door and never made it across the yard. My youngest sis was about 14 at the time and happened to look out the window and saw her laying there. She was only in her early 60's and we didn't see it coming. I was living down here at the time and hadn't seen her in over a year.

Don't forget we are here for you and let your dh know we are thinking of your family!

 

Oh Jennifer that is so sad! Hugs to you!

I never had any grandparents. Well my mom's dad died when I was about 1 or 2, but I never met him he was in FL we lived in NV, and my grandma on my dad's side I met a few times, but I was very very young. She was murdered when I was about 8, but by then my parents had been divorced for some time and we were living here in PA and she was in OK, and we had no contact with them. It is so hard for me to know how to handle this.

 

Sommer, you are doing it just by being there for him. It isn't easy no matter how young or the circumstances that we lose someone.

 

Sommer, you are doing a wonderful job, just be there for him, let him talk, let him cry, let him sit and think and not saying anything if he needs too, let him look at pictures of her.. Just let him know you are there for him what ever he needs I am sure he knows that but just let him know. You are doing a wonderful job, just remember we are here for you all too.

 

Woke up thinking about you guys! The first person I ever knew who died was my grandma, and it was exactly one week before Christmas. Being 13, I totally didn't see it coming. That stunk, to put it mildly.

All you can do is just be there for him and pray. I remember during one rough time, dh told me that he hated being sad, but there was no one he would rather be sad with than me.

 

Sommer I have no doubt you will know what to say to your dh to comfort him. I am sorry for all of this going on right now. It must be very hard. I know my dh and his grandma are VERY close, so I can imagine how hard this can be.

 

Thanks again everyone... I'm jumping for joy.. it's 10am here and still no calls! I thought for sure I would have had to call hubby at work by now!

We really don't expect her to pull through this, and the medics who have been coming and checking her a few times a day have said that it is just a matter of time.. a very short matter of time. She has been "asleep" since yesterday mornning, so we know it is close.

Jen, Kris and I were just talking about how all these things happen around the holidays. My dad passed away on Dec 16th just before my oldest turned 1. We already had a huge party planned and couldn't back out of it (we had rented a hall for it). Then there was Christmas right there too.. it was horrible. My dad and I weren't close, he lived in OK and I was here in PA, so it made it a bit more bareable.. but it was still hard.

 

Just wanted to give everyone an update on grandma.

She is still hanging on. She is more or less asleep, she does respond with stronger breathing when someone touches her, she doesn't have her hearing aids in, so she can't hear anyone there.

The nurses (she has round the clock care, and has had that care for over a year now) got about a half a cup of chicken broth into her yesterday. The first they have gotten anything in in 6 days.

I still don't see her pulling though this, I think it's just a matter of time. I feel she is waiting for something, I just wish someone knew just what it was she was waiting on and could let her have it. I'm thinking she is waiting for all of her kids to come visit, one is an over the road truck driver and hasn't been around in some time. I really think that is what is keeping her here with us right now.

 

Still praying here, sommer.