Last year my grandmother got extremely sick and needed to spend a long period of time in our local hospital.
It was a very hard time for my family, because we knew my grandmother was coming to the end of her life.
She wasn’t able to have the quality of life we all knew she would want. I think during that six month period I spent almost every single day visiting her. I wasn’t always able to stay for long periods of time, but I did try to make it every day. I wanted her to know that I was thinking about her and that she was extremely loved by her family. The hard part about it was that she didn’t seem sick, she just wasn’t able to move around like she once was. She was still quick witted and would constantly keep us laughing when we made our visits. Her laughing was something I really loved about our visits, it made is seem like everything was almost normal. However, there were many things that were difficult about our visits. One of them being how cold they kept the hospital. The air conditioner was running all day and all night. I can’t tell you how many times I asked a nurse to please turn down the temperature of the air conditioner. She said they weren’t allowed to mess with thermostat. I didn’t want to complain to my grandmother about the heating and cooling issues because I didn’t want to insensitive. However, the freezing cold hospital made it really hard to want to go sit with her for hours.