Nani Update

Between facebook, random calls, an over abundance of plectrons and scanners in Matawan, and just "The Great Vine" in general, I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the ambulances at my grandmother's house this week. So here's the quick & dirty update on what happened:

Thursday afternoon, while my father and I were both at her house, my grandmother became ill. We called for an ambulance and she was taken to the Bayshore ER. After tons of tests, a second major scare, and literally 30 hours of waiting, we found out that she had an ulcer that had started bleeding. Once discovered, treatment was immediately started, and she started improving almost immediately. She was finally moved late Friday out of the ER to a bed in the Telemetry Unit (ICU-lite), and today (Sun) moved down to a "regular" bed. She spent 2 days on IV only, Sat on clear liquids, and today she got real food (I've never heard anyone so excited about hospital cafeteria string beans). The doctors are hanging on to her to make sure her stomach takes the food well, but if all goes according to plan it looks like she'll be home around the middle of the week. All the nurses love her and she's the envy of the floor because of all the visitors and cards and such. One of our friends who does balloon animals even made her this huge bouquet of balloon flowers. All the family is gathering as well, coming in shifts over the next few weeks. A pleasant result of an unfortunate reason.

All in all, things are looking good. Thanks for the well-wishes and all - you know who you are.





Later!
K