Thanksgiving

It's been a Thanksgiving week full of blessings but along with those blessings have been trials. My Grandma has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and my dad has been diagnosed with melanoma. He starts radiation on his brain today. There are lesions which have been bleeding in his brain plus swelling in the area which is causing him to have severe headaches which are being helped with Morphine. His left arm is numb. He has short term memory loss. There are lesions in the liver and lungs as well. There are waiting to find out which strain of Melanoma he has to see if he will be starting chemo. He's been in the hospital for a week.


Yesterday for Thanksgiving, we had our best friends over with their twin boys plus Tammy's brother plus I picked up my grandma to join us. Some comic relief on the way to my house - she was sitting in the passenger seat w/her poodle on her lap. We pulled to a stop at a traffic light. The car to my right had a yorkie on the driver's lap. My grandma made K.C. (the toy poodle) "wave" to the yorkie. The driver of the other car, made his yorkie "wave" back to K.C. - crazy cute. Definitely helped since by that point K.C. had been whining for a solid 25 minutes while Nanny and I tried to hold a decent conversation - mainly of me repeating things I've told her every day for the past 2 weeks.

The older Shelby (my 11 year old daughter) becomes, the more significant her cognitive delays become (she was born at 29 weeks and had a hemorrhage shortly before birth) - she has multiple special needs including using a powerchair for mobility.

The ironic thing about brain issues w/my dad, my grandma, and my daughter??? It's our foster baby who has a neurologist appt next week!!!