So we got news that my grandma had a major stroke yesterday.
It started out with a video sent to us at about 4pm, of my uncle and aunt trying to wake my grandma up on the wheelchair, and it didn't quite work. She hadn't woken up the whole day and they realised the seriousness by afternoon time and called for an ambulance to send her to the hospital.
After two hours of checks and examination in A&E, the verdict was out: major stroke in the left half of the brain. My best guess is that it occurred during the night since she was unable to wake up since morning. We were told that her condition was critical and the entire family reached the hospital in the evening. The doctor at CGH had prepped my uncle during A&E about resuscitation measures and one of my other uncles wasn't taking too well to it. A debate started amongst the relatives on whether we should shift my grandma to SGH for "better treatment".
Needless to say, some of them were quite agitated and I refrained from commenting, other than to usher and manage the crowd (we were in a hospital afterall). In my end, my eldest uncle made the decision(s) (for DNR also) and good for him, because he is rational and being the eldest, everyone listened to him.
All of us left the hospital at 11ish, praying and hoping that my grandma will be strong enough to live through this, and wake up as intact as possible. :(
Tearing every now and then since yesterday whenever I thought of her in the hospital being able to sense pain but unable to wake up and see all of us. Reading a post about my grandma totally didn't help :(
And also memories of what happened to my granddad totally came rushing back when I was in the hospital the entire time, me having to call up my parents to let them know that my granddad wasn't gonna make it and all..
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