Hello osu! community,
I have recently come across a very tragic moment in my life that everyone eventually experiences. On the 20th of July my grandmother had a massive heart attack and stroke in the middle of the night and when I woke up the next morning and came to check on her she was alive, but completely unresponsive. After calling 911 and following the ambulance to the hospital my family was informed that my grandmother's brain had almost completely been destroyed because of how long she went without care after having the stroke. The only functions she actually had was moving her left side and involuntary actions such as breathing and such. Because of these circumstances we had to make the tough decision to initiate hospice care and give her as much comfort as possible in the last few days of her life. My grandmother passed away early Monday morning peacefully in her sleep.
Now the reason I post this isn't to grieve about a death or make it sound like I'm the only one to go through this. It's because I have a concern to bring up to the osu! community.
My grandmother was not an unhealthy person. At the time of her death her entire body was completely healthy. The question now was why did this happen if she was such a healthy person? The answer to this is because of 2 simple things. One, my grandmother had smoked her entire life (Pack a day or more.) And two, my grandmother was a stubborn woman who cared more about others than herself.
For the past few months before the stroke and heart attack my grandmother had been having weird heart attack like situations. Although these continued for months after the first she never listened to the pleas of her family to visit a specialist to have the cause of these situations revealed. This was because she was too worried about others to take care of her own problems. Also, when we first called 911 the night before when she had a minor stroke, my grandmother refused the care of the paramedics and decided to stay home instead of going to the hospital (We were later told that if she had gone to the hospital that night she would have been in a much better situation.)
Now this brings up the entire reason I am making this thread. I wanted to inform all of you in the osu! community of the dangers of not taking care of yourself. This situation has really opened up my mind to the dangers of neglecting your own health and I wanted to share my realization with anyone else who cares enough to listen.
If you honestly do not want to take the time to read this then I respect your decision, but please refrain from any flaming or arguments. This is not a thread for such. Also, once again this isn't a "How could this happen to me" thread, because I do realize that I am not the only one to go through this.
Thank you and take care of yourselves.
I have recently come across a very tragic moment in my life that everyone eventually experiences. On the 20th of July my grandmother had a massive heart attack and stroke in the middle of the night and when I woke up the next morning and came to check on her she was alive, but completely unresponsive. After calling 911 and following the ambulance to the hospital my family was informed that my grandmother's brain had almost completely been destroyed because of how long she went without care after having the stroke. The only functions she actually had was moving her left side and involuntary actions such as breathing and such. Because of these circumstances we had to make the tough decision to initiate hospice care and give her as much comfort as possible in the last few days of her life. My grandmother passed away early Monday morning peacefully in her sleep.
Now the reason I post this isn't to grieve about a death or make it sound like I'm the only one to go through this. It's because I have a concern to bring up to the osu! community.
My grandmother was not an unhealthy person. At the time of her death her entire body was completely healthy. The question now was why did this happen if she was such a healthy person? The answer to this is because of 2 simple things. One, my grandmother had smoked her entire life (Pack a day or more.) And two, my grandmother was a stubborn woman who cared more about others than herself.
For the past few months before the stroke and heart attack my grandmother had been having weird heart attack like situations. Although these continued for months after the first she never listened to the pleas of her family to visit a specialist to have the cause of these situations revealed. This was because she was too worried about others to take care of her own problems. Also, when we first called 911 the night before when she had a minor stroke, my grandmother refused the care of the paramedics and decided to stay home instead of going to the hospital (We were later told that if she had gone to the hospital that night she would have been in a much better situation.)
Now this brings up the entire reason I am making this thread. I wanted to inform all of you in the osu! community of the dangers of not taking care of yourself. This situation has really opened up my mind to the dangers of neglecting your own health and I wanted to share my realization with anyone else who cares enough to listen.
If you honestly do not want to take the time to read this then I respect your decision, but please refrain from any flaming or arguments. This is not a thread for such. Also, once again this isn't a "How could this happen to me" thread, because I do realize that I am not the only one to go through this.
Thank you and take care of yourselves.