Grandmother Dearest

I'm not sure if everybody out there knows, but my grandma has been sick for the past three weeks. On Friday, July 20, mom went to Grandma's house for the weekend because grandma couldn't do much because of her sudden back pain. Mom brought her into the doctor's. Grandma was diagnose with Shingles.
So Grandma started taking pills against Shingles. The pills made her delirious, imagining things that weren't there. On Sunday morning, mom spooked grandma, and she had a seizure.
Mom called 911, but there is no hospital in Alcester. The closest hospital is 7 miles away. Mom immediately after calling runs out for help. Outside, there is grandma's neighbor, Viola walking to church. Viola (thank god) is a retired nurse and tells mom not to worry, and to get the guys that work next door to help her restrain grandma.
A little you should know about grandma Mary. She has been in Alcester almost all her life. One of her latest jobs was being a cook at the nearby school. She also helps out at the senior center, and at the manor for assisted living. So naturaly, Mary is loved by everyone and everybody that's ever met her. She is the perfect grandma.
After the ambulance rushes grandma to the hospital in Hawarden, they plan on bringing her to Avera McKennan by helicopter. The driver of the ambulance tells mom that it would cost her about 300$ just for that little drive, but luckily, most of the people in the ambulance knew and loved Mary, so they took her free of charge.
Mom speeds to Sioux Falls to find that she had beaten the helicopter there because they had to hook of grandma to a breathing machine before leaving. Once they arrive they put her in ICU. She does not look good.
Grandma has 8 children, 3 of which live in Texas. They had all been back for an All School Reunion. They had been home for about a week when they rushed back to grandma's aid. One of her daughter's had married the news/weather man, Doug Lund from Kelo land. Doug has his own blog connected to Kelo's sight. Doug was the outside world's connection to see how Mary was doing. After his first blog, he had an amazing amount of comments from lots of places around the U.S. Each one of them saying that they were praying for Mary.
Grandma was not getting better too soon, so doctors said that they were not putting a permanent deadline, but if she doesn't show signs of getting better, they might have to pull the plug in 2 days. Mom actually remembers grandma saying "Don't pull that plug too soon, you hear me?". Also, grandma reacts slowly to medicine, so we wanted to give her time. Eventually, Grandma got better over the 2 week span. By the end of July, she was up and walking.
On August 3, we brought grandma to her house and stayed there over the weekend taking care of her. Another one of her daughters will take care of her for another week after us, and another daughter will take care of her for about another week after that. Then, hopefully, grandma will be back to normal and she will be able to take care of herself. We'll be checking up on her every now and then, just to make sure though.

My new "job"

Lately, I have been having to get up at 6:30 in the morning to help my dad do "chores". For those of you who don't know what chores are, here is and explanation. Chores are when we have to mix together different rations of food with the paloader into the mixer, or the Feeder Wagon. Then we drive the mixer either to the long building (I think that's self explanatory), Eugenes, or Fekases (farm between Eugene's and Loren and Jolene's). We then feed the right amount of feed to the bunks. One of these loads takes about 30 - 45 minutes. There are 4 - 5 loads in all. This is the cattle's breakfast. In the afternoon, we must do this all over again. That is the cattle's supper.
Dad plan's on paying me at the end of the summer. That is coming much too soon for me.