Old Age

I have 4 grandparents...

now maybe you're thinking congratulations elly...you can count! But seriously though, having all 4 grandparents alive when the grandchildren are in their 20s is pretty rare. And its not that I have young grandparents or even young parents, it just so happens that Dutch people (and Fresians) live for a long time. We're a hearty race. Or maybe its just Boersmas and DenHaans. In any case, the downfall of having all grandparents is the knowledge I will have to lose all of them after developing a long relationship with each one.

Things have been quite stressful at home lately as my parents deal with their aging parents. With my grandma in a nursing home developing some form of dimensia or Alzheimer's along with the heart trouble she's had for years, my grandpa lonely living at home alone, my opa gradually losing his eyesight and my oma also having heart troubles and just getting weak, it seems like nothing else could possibly go wrong.

well, yesterday, my oma den Haan was taken to the hospital by ambulance, they figured it was dehydration and they didnt have a bed for her, so they sent her home overnight. Then today, she was doing even worse. She was taken to the hospital again by ambulance and they ran a bunch of tests. They found a slow blood leak on her brain and they need to operate. She also may have bladder cancer and she needs a pacemaker.

Please keep my oma in your prayers as she goes through all this medical work.