Abuela

my Grandmother has been in the hospital since last week & she is ready to go home. Her social worker @ the hospital is trying to get her a home attendant that will be able to stay with her longer hours because she lives @ home alone. she has a weak heart & has been admitted to the hospital 4 times so far, each incident has happended around 10 pm or midnight. therefore, she needs someone who will be able to be there for her in case she has another bad night & can't breath. I have already spoke to her doctor & have told them that she needs an oxygen tank @ home but he's an ass & looks @ me like I don't know anything & I shouldn't be telling him about his job. what this asshole seems to not realize is that she is my grandmother.
my grandmother has been lucky because in each incident, someone was there with her @ home but my aunt & i are worried when no one can stay with her. my uncle is in town from DR but he is leaving town on monday & his wife won't be in ny for another two weeks. so lala & I will be staying with Abuela till my aunt comes to take care of her mother.

i haven't lived with my grandmother in years...so it will be interesting to see how things are once I stay there. I used to spend the whole summer over there & my father never understood why & to tell the truth neither have I. it's not like I was able to hang out or do whatever I wanted while I was over there. i was always in the house & only went out when my aunt's took me out to run errands, my grandmother never bothered me so I was always in the room reading, listening to music or watching television. what I do remember is always waiting for weekends, my aunt always went out on the weekends with her friends/boyfriend. watching her get ready for her nights were my highlights...I used to always say "when I am her age, I am going out & having fun like her". she would tell me where she was going, who she was meeting up with, what their plans were and I would dressed up while she was getting ready. putting on her jewerly & sometimes she put make-up on me..not a lot cause my grandmother would get pissed.

but my aunt has her own place now & has 2 daughters, so it's just gonna be me, Abuela & Lala..this should be interesting. I shall keep you posted on the madhouse....
my relationship with my grandmother is an interesting one, if you didn't know about the way we interact with one another you would think that she is a rude old lady & I was just mean to old folks. but she stays trying to play me & dis me, so I dish it all right back to her. my mother says that we have no respect for one another {she laughs when she says this to us} & my father thinks that we have a strange relationship but it works & i love her to pieces.

this was the conversation the night before in the hospital:

Me: Bendicion {Spanish Blessing ritual}

Abeula: Dios me la bendiga

Me: how u feel?

A: i am tired & want to go home

M: you can't go home yet cause they didn't kick you out yet. they are trying to extend your home attendants time, so you can have someone over in the night time as well. you can't be alone

A: send me to a nursing home then, I won't be alone

M: didn't I tell you to go before & you said no, now you want to go-what for? you need a man?

A: yeah, I need a man & so do you. I thought you were going to give me a great-grandson? you take to long
M: unless you are going to support us then I will have another kid and no, you are not going to a nursing home

A: give me two days in the home & then I'll die in peace

M: here we go again, you are not going to die cause now is not a good time

A: who are you? cause when I am ready I am out

M: you can't die now cause I'm busy {my cousin is laughing}, now really isn't a good time, I don't have a black suit/dress for the occasion, my birthday is next month

A: Happy Birthday then

M: not funny old lady, besides Christmas is coming & if you die you are going to ruin it for your first great-granddaughter. what kind of great-grandmother does that?

A: she'll be to busy opening presents to remember me anyway, two days in a home & I am gone

M: whatever, you probably meet a man & then want to stick around..did you put my name on the insurance, cause you can't leave me broke.

A: then put me in a home so I can find a few men.