Last night my mom called and said, that my Grandma is in the hospital with pneumonia.  Apparently, she has been sick for awhile but she didn't want to burden anyone so she hid the fact she was sick.  SERIOUSLY?  Gram, didn't I teach you anything?  

So they got her started on strong antibiotics, however she got really sick from them and had to be put on Zofran to undo the reaction she had and then they put her on a different kind.  But if it works she should start feeling better really soon.  

My cousin (who is also a paramedic) brought her to the hospital in the Ambulance, and stayed the night with her.  My aunt will stay with her tonight.  I have no idea how long she will be in there.  If we go up to see her, it won't be for a day or so, until she is strong enough to have visitors.  Not that we are just any visitor, but still, we don't want her to feel pressured.  So I will call her later today and talk for a little bit.  I know she is coughing a lot and that alone will be hard for her to do.

Well she is almost 95.  The oldest person in her circuit.  It is to be expected that she is going to have issues with her health.  She was done for a visit a couple weeks ago and she was coughing a lot... actually as long as I have been alive she coughs frequently.  But it was so good to sit with her and hold her.  She practically raised me.  Anytime I ever got sick (which was all the time) she came down and took care of me.  I really don't know where my mom was whenever I got sick, but this was the case pretty much my whole childhood.  That is why I have an extra special place in my heart for her, because she was my comforter growing up.   

I am expecting to get super sick. by the time she leaves the hospital.  And I have known my whole life that loosing her will devastate me like nothing ever has.  The older she gets the more I have been trying to prepare myself... i frequently say to myself "she will sleep a little while, she will sleep a little while, she will sleep a little while".   The "power beyond what is normal" is going to be the one thing to save me.