Some not so fun news on the family front over the weekend. My grandma left a few weeks ago after a one month stay with us to head back to New Delhi, India, where she resides. But apparently over the weekend she was admitted into a local hospital due to kidney failure. Luckily my uncle from California was visiting his wife’s parents in Paris and was able to shoot over to India to check up on her.
She is going to have to receive dialysis treatment consistently over the next few months every two weeks, so my dad is flying out to India tomorrow evening on a last minute trip. I have to cut out of work early to get him to his international flight out of the lovely state of New Jersey.
The relevant issue at hand is that stuff around the house is going to change drastically for the next month. My dad runs his own business and works out of the house almost every day. By doing so, he is able to help out drastically around the house, especially since my mom is barely home because she works two jobs: Customer service rep at the bank during the day and retail job part time in the evenings at a department store.
Now many of the luxuries I have had consistently while living at home are going to fall on the shoulders of myself and my two other grown siblings. We are a family of five all living under the same roof. I won’t lie that is great to have laundry done for me and meals cooked all the time, but now will be an opportunity to fit such activities into my daily routine and help alleviate any stresses off my mom and sis.
The most important thing of this all is that grandma gets better because I am getting married next year and I want a healthy grandma there to see her son get hitched. Plus, I really do not want my parents have to go through the mental and financial stresses of trying to provide care to an elderly person that is on the other side of the globe. So lets hope everything goes well. It is one of those times in life where we have to buckle up, get down and dirty, and do everything we can in our power to keep things running smoothly.
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I too have an elderly grandmother back in the motherland and hope she keeps her health at least until my marriage this winter (one of the reasons I decided to get hitched back home was because she cannot make the long journey to the states anymore). My thoughts are with you and your family!