grandma nancy

i can say with full certainty that no one else in this world has a grandma like my grandma nancy.  if you want proof, let me ask you this.  does anyone else's grandma...

ride a bike that looks like a harley around the neighborhood? 

teach you how to go through purses at d.i. to look for money that was left behind? 

take you dumpster diving for a bonding activity (she actually found us our first nintendo this way!)? 

ride a moto-cross bike off a ramp and land in a lake? 

claim to have invented the "do-rag"?

wear a indian headdress to every football game as well as in the provo city 4th of july parade?

let you put soap in her hot tub so it overflows with bubbles?

she truly is one of a kind and everyone who meets her can't help but love her.  a few weeks ago she had to have a total shoulder replacement and it just so happened that she stayed on my floor at the hospital.

i was lucky enough to be her nurse that first night, and let me tell you she was my most favorite patient i've ever had.  although i'm not sure she felt the same way about me, because after i left she told her new nurse "melissa is a really great granddaughter, but she's a little too strict of a nurse".

she made quite the impression on everyone, and i had coworkers tell me some hilarious stories about her that happened when i wasn't there.  some of my favorite stories of her stay were...

when she accused the male nurse of stealing her jewelry because he had a beard.

holding hands with the physical therapist with interlocked fingers so they could be boyfriend/girlfriend.

visiting other patients in their room (which is quite frowned upon) and making friends with the lady who brought her wigs.

getting up out of bed every night without pushing her call light (which is also frowned upon) and keeping the night shift running to her room every half hour.

i still have coworkers tell me almost every day how cute my grandma was and asking how she's doing, to which i answer she is doing great and recovering fabulously!  you can't keep her down for long and she will be back to her crazy antics again in no time.

love ya grandma!