My 90+ yr Step-Grandad had a small heart attack last night plz send light, Reiki, prayers

[Shallah Kali]

Please also send to his medical team with the intention that it only goes to those willing to receive or else bounces off to someone nearby who wants it plus my Grandmother.

My Grandmother called late last night saying her husband had fallen over trying to pick up something he dropped and couldn't get up. He has had Parkinson's for around 20 yrs now, had a stroke about 10 yrs ago, has needed a hip replacement for yrs but can't go under anesthitic because of emphysema, and had broken his neck and back multiple times in on the job accidents so it is a miracle the man can move at all. He can get around the house OK with a wheeled walker but he can't bend or move his feet good. The house is too tiny for a motorized chair to get around in. Well my Mother and I both tried to lift him last night but could not and had to call the rescue unit who got him back into bed. My stepGrandad didn't mention anything else so I don't know if he couldn't feel the heart attack or if he was doing his usual stoic I won't complain until I am nearly dead thing. This morning he went to the bathroom and fell again. My 90yr GRandmother who also could give lessons in stubbornness to mules tried to lift him in spite of her ruputred disks and own heart attack a bit over a year ago before calling rescue again. This time they took him to the hopsital where tests showed he had had a small heart attack.

I have been praying for years that my stepGrandad could stay at home as long as possible. He and my Grandmother would be so unhappy without one another but insurance won't help with nursing care unless he is basically bed ridden which I hope won't be the case now. He is a good man who worked hard all his life and saved up but could never turn down relatives who said they were hard up and so ended up with little more than his social security. My Grandmother is the same way she was always buying clothing including winter coats for her grandkids and later greatgrandkids when their parents spent the money on other things and giving loans that were never repaid. Both were always there for their families when they needed a roof repaired or built on addition loaning money and even building stuff. If carpentry skill could be absorbed by osmosis I could be on extreme home make over showing them how it was really done :p It has really bothered them these past several years they have had to finally say no to relatives and no to charities they used to donate to.

Please send light, reiki, prayers or other good vibes their way. Thank you

[JanusAscending]

1. Bless their hearts.

I am sending healing prayers right this moment! May they both feel the Master's Touch, and may you all be surrounded by light and love.:grouphug: DC

[mother earth]

2. Will do, Shallah, for you too...

:hug: :grouphug:

[MorningGlow]

3. Of course, Shallah

Sending reiki to your grands and the rest of your family now. :hug: :hug: :hug: Keep us posted, okay?

[WhiteTara]

4. om mani padme hum

om mani padme hum. om mani padme hum.

May all beings be at peace
May all beings be healed
May light surround us all

[midnight]

5. I pray that the are kept together.

[I Have A Dream]

6. Shallah, I love your grandparents just from the way that you describe them.

They are passionate, proud, independent, loving, generous people with amazing hearts.

I will definitely be keeping them in my prayers and will send light and energy their way.

[Shallah Kali]

7. I can't thank you all enough. My stepGrandad is a sweet man

I don't want to make him stay on earth if his soul has decided it is time to go but if he has opted to stay I want it to be as good as possible. He has always been so generous to my Grandmother's family. We were all his kids and grandkids. Even before Parkinson's made it harder for him to talk he didn't have much to say. He let his actions showed that he cared and valued us. I still have the aquarium stand me made for me when I got a big fish tank from my parents. He kept adding more and more wood to make sure it would hold up the weight until the stand weighted over 80lbs when my Dad put it on the bathroom scale because he had to know just how much that sucker weighed :)

Now my Gram is prickly at times. She is the kind of person to give you the clothes off her back and then tell you it makes your butt look big :P She will say the grass is getting long and needs mowing but won't let me or my Mom mow that day. No don't do it now, do it next week. Then the next day she will call and say she mowed it herself and during the hottest part of the day. She can't stand to accept gifts even inexpensive practical things. I will buy toilet tissue when it is on sale for the supersize pack buy 1 get 1 and she will fret about paying me back. I always tell her I gave her the free one but it still bothers her. Her cable tv box drives her nuts and several times a year I have to go down and reset everything to chanel 3 and make sure her kitty hasn't disconnected anything. Last month it was late so when she asked like always what was my price I told her I was going to charge triple time which meant I got 3 hugs not just one this time :) She used to pay me in homemade cookies as well as a hug until I was diangosed with celiac {drool}

I was adopted as a baby by my parents and my Grandmother never treated me and my adopted older sister any different from any other grandchild. A few other relatives did but she did not. When I was older and met my biological Mom my Grandmother welcomed her and my half-siblings in as family and startling my younger half siblings by her big bear hug. I am so very blessed and tho I tell my grandparents I love them every time I see them it is never enough. I hope it is true that during life reviews people feel how good they made others feel so that at least then they will know even if they can't feel and know it now.

[I Have A Dream]

8. You may not have the same blood but you certainly have an amazingly...

strong love bond. The love that you all feel for each other drips out of your posts about your grandparents, Shallah. It is an amazing blessing that you found each other in this life, just as you all planned beforehand.

:)

[Shallah Kali]

9. Thank for saying that

I have never felt bad about being adopted. I always wondered why it bothered other people. I knew my bio-Mom loved me and wanted me to have more resources in life than she could provide me. I knew my adopted parents loved me and my grandparents loved me. DNA does not make a family a family. I have real family that is both with and without matching DNA and I am so blessed in this. There are plenty of times we drive each other half crazy, step on one anothers toes physically and emotionally but at the end of the day we know we will do our best to help one another even if we might have a few bald spots from ripping out our own hair in frusteration :)

Oh that reminds me when Gram had her heart attack Mort wanted his hair shaved off as he has so little left like usual. That went fine but when he asked me to trim his eyebrows which if left to themselves grow like weeds I accidently removed over half one one instead of just shortening it. He made sure to tell everyone which grandchild was the eyebrow mutilator did it when people asked what happened!

[mother earth]

10. Shallah, sounds like you have been part of a very loving circle,

whether by birth or not, sometimes the loves we choose mean more than the ones we have birth rights to...your love and spirit shines so brightly. Stay strong and thankful, everyone we love in life is a gift for however long we can share this time together. My grandparents died within a week of each other, but they live forever in my heart.

[Shallah Kali]

11. Update on my Granddad - still in hospital, trying to get him into the VA nursing

He is still to weak to stand and I am hoping that with time to recover and some good rehab he will so he can return home safely. I couldn't see him myself today as I have a head cold and the last thing he needs is a flu or pneumonia from me :( My Mom said he was really sad he couldn't go to bingo like normal today with her and told the nurses they need to get him in shape for that asap.

After my the visit my Mom took Gram home and their poor kitty was yowling he was so worried having Gram go out so long and with Mort missing. He normally rarely meows, and then it is very soft, instead prefering his big blue eyes to do the speaking but I could hear him on the phone when Mom called to let me know they were home OK. If you can spare some vibes for Leo I would really appreciate it. He is a tender hearted guy who adores my grandparents especially my Gram and he gets seperation anxiety if she is away too long. He likes to play a game with my Grandad where Leo spreads himself out in the middle of his way showing off his irrisistable fuzzy tummy. When my Grandad would reach where Leo was with his walker Leo would scoot forward about a yard and then spread himself out again and repeating this all the way across the room :) As my Gram goes aroud with a photo I took of Leo to show off I will show him off here now for those who like a visual to send to: http://picasaweb.google.com/shallahk/Leo

[I Have A Dream]

12. Leo's such a handsome boy. I'll certainly send him energy, Shallah.

I'm happy to hear that your granddad is anxious to recover so that he can resume his regular life. That's a really good sign -- he's not giving up.

[Shallah Kali]

13. Some good and not so good news

The good news:
My Granddad was able to walk to the nurses station and back today with help & a walker :)

The bad news:
While it looks like the VA will take him to the nursing/rehab home medicare and his supplemental insurance won't cover it all. The woman my Gram talked to said something about getting him on MaineCare to cover some of the difference but it doesn't sound like they are eager to help her get this going :( I told her she should call the Southern Maine Agency on Aging to see if one of their social workers could help her with this but I don't know if she will call so I asked my Mom who knows more of the details of my Grandparents situation than I do to call them tomorrow and see if she can't get things started.

Please keep the good vibes coming to them including for something to help cover the medical care.