Update on Grandma

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Update on Grandma
Jill took the initiative of posting the updated information about Grandma Mason, so I'm going to let her say it for me (with a few of my comments added at the end, of course).
"For those of you who read my sister's blog you know that my Grandma is in the hospital. I thought I would give you a bit of an update.
For anyone who hadn't heard, Sunday night my Grandma was admitted to the hospital after complaining to my Uncle Jim about side pains. He originally thought they were on the left side and worried about heart problems. It was actually on her right side and turned out to be pancreatitis. So they decided to keep her overnight.
Tuesday we got the report that there was still swelling/inflammation and they wanted to keep her at least another night. Today they did an ultrasound and found a blockage in one of the ducts of the gall bladder and were going to operate (possibly even this evening.)

On top of that Grandpa Johnny just had a mental assessment test done and was shown to be severely impaired. He is living on his own while Grandma is in the hospital. If you think of it, please keep them all in your prayers. It is hard to be so far away when they are struggling with medical issues like this.

I'll give you all an update when one is available. Thanks for the prayers!"
Uncle Jim just called to let us know Grandma got worked in for surgery starting at 10 am today, so she's in there right now. Mom and Jill just finished ordering flowers for her (online), and Mom made sure to tell Uncle Jim that. From his response, I think she'll enjoying bragging about 'em to her visitors.

***Further update!!!****
Uncle Jim just called Mom - Grandma didn't actually go in for surgery until 11:30, but she's out now. The family's waiting to see her, and it sounds like the surgery went well.

The doctor saw more that he wants to take care of later, so she'll be going in for a bigger surgery later (not sure when) - sounds like they'll have to open her up for that one.