In case you didn't see it on mine or Jeremy's facebook page, Jeremy's grandmother passed away on Tuesday night. Jeremy got a text from his mom around 5pm or so letting us know that the doctors didn't think she'd make it through the night. When I got home around 6 he told me and we got things together to head down there.
After we stopped briefly to grab something to eat, we made it down there by about 9pm. Went into the hospital, and started to get "lectured" by the old lady at the front desk. "Visiting hours are over, you'll have to come back tomorrow" is what she kept saying to us. We were trying to explain to her that his grandmother wouldn't be ALIVE during visiting hours tomorrow. She called up to the nurse's station, and she was talking very softly until she said, "So, I can let them up for a few minutes, but then TELL THEM TO COME BACK TOMORROW DURING VISITING HOURS?" and she was looking at me the whole time. I about jumped over that desk and strangled her with her phone cord. I just couldn't understand how she could be so rude when we were telling her that his grandmother was dying. She just said, "well, no one has told me that". So, they finally let us up, telling us we could only stay for a few minutes. (Yeah, few minutes my ASS. When we got upstairs, I pulled one of the nurses aside and asked if she could call down to the front desk and let them know what was going on so that no more family had trouble getting in.) I'm not knocking her for doing her job...she just didn't seem willing to take one extra step and see if what we were saying was actually true. Not once did she say that she'd check on her condition or anything. She was just adamant on not letting us up there, for whatever reason. Just glad it worked out in a relatively short amount of time...
We got up there, and she was in really bad shape. Not conscious, struggling to breathe. We had only been up there a little over an hour when she passed. Jeremy was so thankful to have made it in time. It was quite an emotional time, obviously. We left SC around 1am, made it home around 3am. Luckily Jeremy had Wednesday off. I went to work....and made it mostly awake. :)
The funeral was Friday morning. Beautiful day, beautiful location. It was a tough day, for many reasons, and the family has a lot of tough days ahead of them. Please keep them in your prayers....for peace and strength....
Well you guys certainly had your mettle tested this week. You with a new job "flying blind" and Jeremy having lost someone close to his heart. Then, traveling in the wee hours of the morning on a work day for good reasons, but still hard. I'm so sorry for your loss and continue to pray for you guys other family who need strength to carry them through.
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