*Warning: This may be lengthy. You may want to leave now. But I am posting this for all of the ones that are so kind to care and continue to ask about my Papa. Ya'll are some awesome friends and will forever be in my warped up heart!*
I went to visit with papa last night and he is showing some improvement. The doctors have mentioned that he may get to go home maybe tomorrow, depending on his temp, which is down to around 99.7. He still has a good deal of congestion but considering he has been a smoker for over 60 years, I suppose he will always have congestion. They will be sending him home on oxygen which I can imagine he will argue about, because he is arguing about everything now. LOL That let's me know he is feeling some better. They say he still showing the signs of alzheimers. And I guess if you really look at things that way, the signs are there. But I still choose not to believe it. My family says I am the only one that is in denial, and that is fine, I will stay in denial until I walk in to see him and he doesn't know who I am. I have already lost one grandparent to that disease and I do NOT want to see anyone else go through that. That is one of the cruelest diseases there is. Anything that wipes out your mind, is a mean bastard.
Someone has to stay with him 24/7 because he does get confused and tries to fight things going on around him. When he goes home, we'll all be rotating staying until he gets completely well because my granma is afraid to be alone with him and she can't handle him when he has his "fits." I threatened to hit him with my flip flop last night because he kept taking his nicotine patch off and throwing it in the floor, snatching the oxygen off and trying to throw it, pulling the heart monitor off and slinging it. He and I were both laughing when I told him that because he knows I would never do that to him. He said I guess this is pay back for all those times I had to beat your ass for being a brat. All I could do was laugh and cry. Of course he thought me crying was crazy. LOL I love him so much and I just see him going down so fast.
He and I discussed my cruise again. And he says if I don't go, he won't talk to me ever again. I really have mixed feelings about it, but I guess I am going. He told me he's not going anywhere yet and he promised he would be here when I get back. I know he can't control that, but I also believe that a person's mind set on living or giving up has a lot to do with things.
Anyway, I have babbled enough. Thanks for listening and again, Thanks for being my friend. You are all so damn awesome!!!
~Hugs & Love~
Mary
