Thursday, September 10, 2015
grandpa
I would never go to Marquette General Hospital again.. My grandfather was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer in the beginning of the year of 2013. He was being treated at MGH. Later that year, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Yes, he was a smoker and yes he was as drinker. One would think that they would still have my grandfathers charts from the previous months he was there getting treated with throat cancer but we were wrong. They almost killed my grandfather. They were saying that he was a DNR, but in all reality he wasn't. So they were not giving him the help he needed and wouldn't resuscitate him. We then found out what was going on and fired the doctors off our case and was asked for him to be transferred over to Mayo Clinic. That day, he got accepted into Mayo Clinic and was air lifted there. All my immediate family had went home to pack their bags to hit the road to Minnesota. It was a long drive, the only thing that was running through my mind was my grandfather. I was thinking of every way possible that i could have helped him. We got to the hospital, my grandfather had no idea what was going on or where he was. I could not stop telling him how much i loved him and told him that he needs to keep fighting for me. He went through a lot at mayo clinic. Through surgeries and procedures, it was all a nightmare. I stayed at the hospital for two and a half months with my grandmother. When my grandfather go out of the hosptial, he went to Wisconsin and lived with one of his daughters and went to recovery there. He did great, he got to come home after about two months. He got home and in the home hospice. One day i was at his house and he didnt look or sound good at all. He lost all his energy, he couldn't talk, or do anything. He then later passed away that day in his favorite chair. Honestly can say that has been the worst day of my life, losing him as changed me. I got to clean his body up when the nurses were in there cleaning him up before they came and got his body. It would be interesting to talk to anyone about this if they have gone through the same thing because its always nice to hear what other people did to keep their lives moving.
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I can totally relate to this. Because I only have my mom and no dad, my grandpa was my father figure. He taught me everything a father should teach you. He's the one that taught me to hunt and fish and the reason I love it so much! He didn't have cancer, but he had kidney disease and a lot of other health issues all his life, and 10 years before he passed he has a kidney transplant. Before he passed his kidney was failing and he needed a new one. At that time I was 2 years under the age to donate and I felt useless.. I had a perfectly healthy kidney and I wasn't aloud to give it to him. He was hospitalized at Marquette General for few days when things got bad. They sent him home when he shouldn't have gone home. He was still sick, and that same day he had to be rushed back and passed away that night. It's been 6 years and to this day it feels like yesterday. I still don't understand or accept what happened and I always keep thinking what more I could have done, even just telling him a million times more how much I love him. One thing that does help is just talking. Just having someone to listen to my stories from the past. I have no real coping advice other than that because I'm still trying to figure it out myself. My grandpa is my world still even though he's gone! Your grandfather sounds like a great man and I'm sorry for the loss.
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