This has been really difficult. Because I’m normally a very open book person. But extended family drama forced me to play many things closer to the chest than I care to.
I don’t want to get off in the weeds here, and I’m not really comfortable discussing the details, but the short version is that because of a complete crap storm of issues and circumstances, my granddaughter is a ward of the state, and my daughter-in-law’s aunt is her guardian. My son, my daughter-in-law, and her mother (the other grandmother) are only allowed to see her very limited and only under supervision.
Some of this is the state interceding because things looked bad, but were not entirely what they seemed…but then was grossly exacerbated by my son and daughter-in-law reacting as if they were on Jerry Springer and this lending credence to the circumstantial things that looked bad.
The whole thing is a mess and I can’t get into it any more than that.
But she has been going through chemo and as far as we know (they are limited in what they can share with us) she is having surgery next Tuesday in an attempt to remove the cancer from her liver and see if they can save enough of her existing liver that she won’t need a transplant.
We just flew down to Florida yesterday, and we are in a locked down wing at AdventHealth hospital in Orlando, and we had to be cleared by social workers so that we could visit her this week and into next week.
My son and daughter-in-law questioned the care that she is receiving here and they were trying to move her up to Boston Children’s Hospital, but they no longer have the legal authority to move her at all. So here she stays. The operation is next Tuesday and we will be here until next Thursday. Asking for continued good vibes