June 12, 2012

• trip

  Well, got back into town yesterday evening...it was a pretty eventful trip and it left me with a lot of thoughts, so I might make two or three posts instead of just one, so that I can make sure to get everything down.  I might as well start now!

  Thursday I worked until noon.  I got off work and came here, where my mom was waiting for me.  I was a little troubled because my cat had apparently decided to pout about something, and my house smelled like cat urine when I got home.  It was really nasty-but I didn't have time to figure out exactly what the problem was, or where exactly the problem was coming from, although I could tell she had peed somewhere in the living room, near the door.  But again, unfortunately,  I didn't have time to really dig into the problem, because we had to leave and catch our flight to Missouri.

  We didn't have any trouble getting through security.  I thought it was quite funny when a young man, probably a little younger than I am, decided to kind of push his way through to the front of the line and demand to know if there was a "government line".  The security guard looked at him like he had lost his mind, and told him no, and to go to the back of the line.  It was very funny.  The guy wasn't in any kind of uniform, and his hair was completely unkempt...he looked more like a hippy than a government official, but he seemed positive that he would get to cut to the front of the line.  The security guard was quite funny about the whole thing.  Anyhow, we made it through security without incident, and were about an hour and a half early for our flight.  We had dinner there in the terminal at a mexican food place. It was good, but super duper expensive. 

  We arrived in Kansas City at about 8:00 pm, Missouri time.  We had reserved a rental car, so picked that up and headed for my grandma's house.  My uncle had signed her out of the nursing home prior to our arrival, so they were waiting there when we got to her house.  There was a bit of incident in checking her out because her blood sugar had gone WAY high, scarily high, up into the 660's.  They didn't want her to check out of the home, but she insisted, and since she was still functional, they let her go.  So that had happened, but by the time we got there she was checking her sugar again for her night time insulin, and it had come down fairly nicely.  We visited for an hour or so before my uncle left, and then we all went to bed.  My grandma looked ok, just very much older, and also somehow...shrunken.  She looks so feeble, even though she is a bigger lady.  Her hair is almost completely gone-there really isn't much left at all.  It was wonderful to see her.  She can't get in and out of bed very easily at all, and in fact had fallen from her bed a few times prior to going into the nursing home, so she preferred to sleep in her recliner chair, so my mom and I each took one of the bedrooms.  I felt badly about that, but she insisted, and I do know for sure that she really had fallen several times, so we didn't argue too much with her about it.  Her little dog was super happy to see her, and my grandma wanted the dog to sleep on her lap all night.  Little dog was only too happy to oblige! The two were inseparable all weekend, and I got a really good picture of my grandma with the dog sitting on her lap.  I am going to frame that one, and I'll send her a copy too.

  Ok, that is it for tonight, time for me to go to bed!

  • 11:59 pm
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