Week 5 Famous Last Words

This week, or really yesterday, has been worse than any I could possibly imagine. My grandmother, who has been estranged from our family for over a decade, is in the hospital dying of bone and lung cancer. She can't have chemotherapy, because that's what put her into the hospital to begin with and what has made her health (already a precarious thing) decline so rapidly. They were going to move her home for hospice comfort care, but have actually decided not to move her because she couldn't survive the trip, so it's only a short matter of time before we have to say goodbye for good. Also, she's not very lucid, is sedated and restrained most of the time so that she doesn't pull her tubes out, and is generally uncomfortable and in pain when she is awake (which has only happened once while I was there on Sunday). Then, yesterday my mother called to tell me that night before last she had to take our cat to the vet and have him put down because he had gotten a blood clot in his lungs and was partially paralyzed and having trouble breathing. Then, last night, my other grandmother (who I spend every summer with and is in my picture for my introduction thing) had to take our best horse, our only stud, and the best and friendliest and sweetest stud you will ever meet, to the vet because he had ripped off his horse shoe and that had taken most of his hoof with it so he was bleeding profusely. The vet ended up not being able to do anything and had to put him down. So, it's been a hell of a week and it's only Wednesday. On a good note, I found out this week that I get to go to Africa this summer to study abroad! I've set up a link to the page that describes my trip as well as lets people donate to help fund it on the right side of my blog page. I hope you all have had a better week than me and I hope that my next week goes better!

Image Information: Personal photo of Pepper taken February 2015. 

Famous Last Words Week 3

This week has been crazy and awful and not so bad and okay, etc. You see, I ran out of the medication that I'm supposed to always take at the end of last week and the pharmacy couldn't fill it over the weekend because they needed to get a refill order and the doctor's office was closed. So I was without them for three days, which made my life completely crazy because coming off meds and then going back on them makes your emotional stability a wreck. I missed a few assignments in this class and a quiz in another class and an assignment in a third class, which all sucked, but at least for this class I can make it up.

This week sucked in general, but one of the cool things that happened after I was back on my meds was that I got to meet my new patient for my psychology capstone class. For that class, we are assigned a patient at Griffin Memorial Hospital for the whole semester to be a companion to and learn more about mental illness, but my first patient got discharged so I needed a new one. My new patient is awesome, though I can't tell you much about them due to confidentiality. They are super friendly and nice and talk a lot and I think we are going to get along really well for the duration of the semester.

Another good thing I did was to get several canvases from Ross with inspirational quotes on them and hang them up in my room (which I've lived in for a year and half and have never decorated) and I also rearranged my furniture so that hopefully will improve my outlook on life. The biggest point of joy in my life, though, is my dog Lily, who is entirely too adorable most of the time (though earlier this week she did poop on my floor - which is strange since she's been house trained for over a year) and just shows so much joy and excitement at just being alive that it's nice to see and strive to be like that. Anyways, I hope everyone else had a better week than I did and I hope that I have a better week next week!

Image Information: Personal Photo of my dog Lily from 12/5/14