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AMANDA
Hi, my name is Amanda and I am 23, I am also a mother of two, I take care of
my grandmother, who took care of me alot when I was little. I am her first
born grandchild. She has 8 kids, two of whom she has realtions with, however
don't have the cabibility to care for her, two whom she has never really had
realtions with, one who she never talks to, and my mother who can barely care
for herself. Anyways I orginally started to just taken her shopping, for
groceries etc, she has never had a liscence. So when she asked me to help her
out I didnt think twice about 6 months into helping her, not even, she went
into the hospital had to get 7 pints of blood, she had pulps and basically
bled to death, she has never tooken care of her body as far as check ups and
stuff. well after that scare it led us to the gynocologist who put her on
estrogen, so that would of made it I think around Nov. In Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar,
we went to the er numerous times Im talking her calling me at midhight she
was having pain her back, couldn't sleeep, could'nt eat, etc. They sent her
home with kidny stones, bladder infection, gall stones, you name it.Well
finally in April they decided to do a upper GI to actually look at her gall
stones. And that's when they noticed her pc was swollen. And that she was
in her third stage. Took me by surprise. Being she is my grandma, I honestly
thought she would,nt get treatment. However she is and doing ok. Im soo
thankful I found this website, The stories on here are soo real words can not
express, sometimes I feel like I losing my mind. But I'll be ok. good luck to
all Amanda
Posted 03/09/2002 09:55 pm by Amanda
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