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After over three months of suffering through a broken hip, a misdiagnosis, one bout of pneumonia and three bouts of c.difficile, my Nana passed away tonight. Just a few minutes ago.

She was a quietly strong woman, living to 95 years old. Along the way, she experienced things like the first World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War, a monarch or two, the death of her husband, her two sisters and her brother. She beat cancer. She quit smoking, cold turkey. She saw her son become a doctor, marry a woman who became a lawyer and saw them have two grandchildren -- both with her blue eyes.

Turning comments off, because there's nothing really one can say at this point.

Thank you, all of you, for your kind comments and sweet words and good thoughts and prayers over the last several months. They have been more appreciated than you know. Nana appreciated knowing that random people that I know out there on the Internet ("you know, the computer thing") were thinking about her and praying for her. Thank you.

It's 5 degrees out, with a high of 9 today.

That's 42 with a high of 48, for you silly Fahrenheiters out there. ;)

It's also COLD, dammit. Gah.

Anyways, update on life:

- Nana beat c. difficile, but then got pneumonia and is now back in isolation for c. difficile. She has no symptoms, apparently, but might be carrying it (?) so she's in isolation with another woman who DOES actually have it. Her oxygen saturation levels are okay, hovering around 90-95 on room air (as opposed to being on oxygen) so hopefully that's going okay. She's awfully weak, though, and isn't eating all that much -- but then lots of people don't feel like eating with pneumonia. She's got an IV right now, too, so at least she's getting some kind of nourishment. More thoughts, prayers, vibes, etc, are welcome. I didn't even get her to laugh last time I saw her; just got a smile. :/

- School's going okay. Got a B on my Law and Society midterm, a B- on my Italian test (typical fare for me in Italian) and an 86% on an essay outline for Journalism, the essay being due tomorrow. Whee.

- National Novel Writing Month starts Thursday. I plan to take part, although I don't know if I'll be able to beat last year's miserable word count of 6000. I also will not be posting any of it on LJ, but I'll put it up on my own website and let a filter know when/if there are updates.

- I woke up at 8am after going to bed at 10 last night. I think I was actually asleep by 10:30.

- Yay Sox.

- Go Habs.

- Heading to the parents' after class tomorrow to help hand out Halloween candy.

That's pretty much my life right now. Thrilling, I know.

Anyways, I'm dressed and almost ready to leave a good hour before I have to, so I'm actually going to do my Italian homework and translate a passage from The Godfather from English into Italian. This is the absolute weakest part of my Italian. I can translate from Italian to English fairly well (as evidenced on my test -- I really only lost points translating from English to Italian) but the reverse makes me want to cry.

I need a new Liz Lemon icon, imho.

Sorry for a seemingly double post, but I just heard from my mom and apparently, my Nana has totally perked up today. She's still in some pain, still in a lot of discomfort, but got an IV of potassium and sodium today and that gave her a bunch of energy. She saw a geriatric specialist, a skin specialist (she's got these horrible sort of lesions/sores from lying down forever and from the IVs and other stuff) and her physiotherapist and actually got out of bed and sat in her chair.

I kind of almost cried in relief, even though she certainly isn't out of the woods yet. It's just such a huge relief to know that she's doing *better* for the first time, really, in two weeks. I mean, surgery, a transfusion, C.difficile... It's like I can breathe again.

I'd like to say that I don't mean to turn my LJ into a "this is how my Nana is doing" blog, but I have the really awful feeling that if I don't write about this, then I'm not going to process any of this at all.

Ahem.

Keep the vibes/prayers/thoughts comin', they're doing something. :)

And if anyone has an idea as to something I could bring my Nana that is totally disposable that would cheer her up (I already brought a card), hit me with it.

Off to Law & Society.

As I slept VERY oddly and irregularly last night, I now find myself still groggy at 1:40pm. Class is in just over an hour, so... quick update.

Nana had her hip surgery on Monday. They replaced the top of her femur (thigh bone) and fixed the issue with the actual hip, as I understand it. So I saw her yesterday (Tuesday). She was still in a significant amount of pain, because she'd done some physiotherapy. Her muscles are all really weak at this point, from not having moved for two weeks.

Still, my Nana's a tough cookie and came through surgery (general anaesthetic, no less!) just fine. Keep the good thoughts coming, though, 'cause she's got a lot of work ahead of her.

As to life... Journalism class today, must leave in 21 minutes. Italian and Soci of the Media tomorrow, followed by an Italian get-together thingy from 5:45-6:45, to practice speaking Italian. Loose plans with JB on Friday evening, possibly coffee with SY in the afternoon.

Somewhere in there, I have to watch the season premiere of The Office. I've already watched the premiere of How I Met Your Mother, but never did get around to watching the last few episodes of Heroes, so I haven't watched that premiere yet.

Also, WarCraft is so broken right now with a whole bunch of addons giving a billion different errors. So much so that I had to cancel our raid last night. I was cranky and I still haven't figured out half of my own issues.

Ugh, I need to get this show on the road.

Fandoms. Colliding.

In episode 4 of Las Vegas this season, there was the regular cast...

Plus COLBY from Survivor: Outback (and All-Star).

As if THAT wasn't enough, there's a little old lady in this ep.

Know where I've seen HER before?

Star Trek. Yes, it's Beverly's Nana on Las Vegas. And she'll be 87 years old on November 16. You go, Nana.