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I hate everything
Ok. So I'm still working on my grant, and I'm hoping to finish for the weekend. My mom called and said my grandfather fell and the ambulance had to come for him. They took him to the emergency room and they did some x-rays and found that he broke his hip. So he's going to have surgery tomorrow. Then they're going to move him someplace where they can take better care of him. Currently, he's living with my grandmother, but he has late stage parkinson's disease, so it's been really hard on her. I just feel so bad for her because they haven't been apart in as long as I've been alive. She's still very high functioning and in very good health. It will destroy her if he has to stay there for the long term.
I really want to go home and see everyone, even though I know there isn't anything that I can specifically do to make things better, it just makes ME feel better, you know? But I can't because of this grant. I really have to be on campus to work on it. And I've put so much effort into this, and this is the last time I can submit at this point in my career that I really need to give it my all... I just don't want to be here anymore. 
Re: I hate everything
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I'm sorry to hear about your Grandpa. Thats tough. Maybe they could both move someplace together once all is settled down? My grandparents moved into assisted living that worked well for them because they could each get the specific care they needed but they lived together. (Grandma needed physical help, Grandpa needed mental care)
I totally understand how you feel. When my grandpa fell and hit his head, there wasn't anything we could really do but wait but it felt better to at least be there to support my mom and my Grandma too. Is it a possibility to pour your efforts into the grant and go visit this weekend?
Thoughts and prayers going out to you as your family muddles through what is, I'm sure, a pretty tough time.
I completely empathize with how you. T's and P's being sent express.
Is there any opportunity for what Witty was suggesting? My grandparents did the same thing. They needed different levels of care, so they had different rooms, but they were in the same complex and were with each other every day.
This has been a crap week for a lot of us, huh?
Sorry about your g-pa--I hope everything works out and you get to see him soon.
I'm kind of in the same situation. I'm racing against a deadline to get these wedding invites I'm working on done by Friday, and it's the last thing I want to do. I'd like to visit my grandpa in the hospital, but feel torn to stay home so I can meet my deadline.
Not to steal your thread, but we don't know any more on the status of my grandpa. Silly guy didn't ask the doctor any questions, so we know absolutely the same amount of info we did yesterday. I will be sending thoughts and prayers up for your g-pa, as well as my own. Hang in there girl!