Last Week

So we have one week left here. I still have stomach flu so we had to leave this park that took us an hour by taxi to get there after 2 hours because I was going to throw up. This then led to a huge fight when we got home. Needless to say we are all just trying to figure out how we can get through this last week together without killing eachother.

On a worse note, grandma decided 3 days ago that she was no longer going to walk anywhere- not even around the house. She got the same sickness I got a week ago but as far as we knew it had cleared up, but still she decided she was too sick to leave her bed and so we had to hire another nurse to come so that when grandma had to go to the bathroom they could lift her together, but even those too couldn't lift her so dad had to come help all the time. Then 2 days ago the second nurse had to leave to do another job and Fakhri and dad were alone to lift grandma themselves. We had been planning a trip to the Caspian Sea for the weekend but Fakhri told us that if we left she wouldn't be able to lift grandma and so she would just let her lay in bed for 2 days until we got back and that there was nothing she could do. Because of this we had to cancel our trip to the sea. Then yesterday Mehran took just about all he could of this and called an ambulance to take her to the hospital. The trouble with hospitals here is that they literally will not give help to someone who comes in if there isn't someone with them that is planning to spend the entire stay with them. Because of this we put her in ICU, where visiters aren't allowed. Today we are going to see her and see if she is OK to come home or to be moved out of ICU.

On a happier note, we are going to a restaurant in the mountains this coming week! We are also going to some museums and seeing the crown jewels of the Qajar kings, who are the sheikholeslami relatives.