Commented on a discussion 7/26/2008 at 11:23 pm
I need a little help or someone to talk to. Me and my boyfriend plus my child have recenlty moved in with my grandmother. We haven't been here that long and feel like we are about to loose our minds.
...Read MoreI need a little help or someone to talk to. Me and my boyfriend plus my child have recenlty moved in with my grandmother. We haven't been here that long and feel like we are about to loose our minds.
My grandmother had open heart surgury about 4 years ago and hasn't been then same since. I am not sure what happened to her during the surgury or what but she isn't the same. She went into the hospital with only a 10% chance of surving the surgury and sailed through it like there wasn't anything to it. She only spent one day in ICU and then was put on the regular floor with other heart patients. She was only in the hospital for like 3 days with the whole deal. She was sent home with the instructions that she needed to walk and exersize as much as possible to get her strength back up. Well she didn't , she just wanted to sit around and not do anything that the doctors told her to do. Keep in mind before she had his surgury she was fine, she cut her own grass and kept her house clean. My mother came and lived with her for 4 months to try to help her get better, but she got to where she couldn't take it anymore and the doctors that she was seeing told her that if she didn't leave she would end up in the hospital on the nutt floor because she was going crazy and was told she had a major depressive disorder.
I started just staying with her at night just to make her feel a little better about being in the house alone at night. That was all find and good, but we noticed something wasn't right come to find out they gave her the wrong meds and her thyroid went crazy because of it.
My grandmother has three kids and only me and my mom do anything for her. My mom does the bath and helps cut the grass. I take care of the gro. bills and meds and some doctor appointments my mother does others. Her other doughter's do nothing , one uses the excuse she is in school full time and has 3 kids, so she doesn't have time, and the other is that she has to work to put her doughter through school and she has church. There for everything falls on me and my mom.
My grandmother got to the point to where she didn't want to go to church, or see family unless I was there. She won't go out to eat, she won't even drive. All she does is lay in the bed, or complain because I didn't do something that she wanted me to do, or sit in her recliner.
Well, tonight I was in her room sitting talking to her just to see what she might have to say. She come off the wall with some stuff that just blew my mind. Things that I never thought I would ever hear come out of her mouth. She told me " I know how to kill myself since you took all of my meds and my guns away from me." It was just an out of the blue thing just blew my mind. I was just wondering what she would say so I asked her " How?" She told me " get a 5 gallon bucked and a razor blade, cut my wrist and watch the blood run out until I was dead, how much blood is in a human body anyways?" It just flipped me out completly. I am not sure weather or not I should call her doctor's and tell them what she said or what so I called my mom. She isn't sure what to do either. Help me with this choice. I am scared that if I tell her doctor she will be mad at me, and he will lock up on the nutt floor. I am not sure how much more I can take of this kind of talk.
She has been miserable since she had the surugry!
Any advice is welcome
Trisha