how i came to have a roomie

"if anything ever happens to grandma...i get grampa" these words begin the tale of how grampa came to settle in with me-- we had just come back from hawaii and i was talking to mom and said i get grampa -- at the time it seemed an unlikely outcome-- he had been in and out of the hospital a few time within the past months-- grandma hadn't been to the hospital in 28 years... but then 3/17 came and she left this earth and i got grampa.. what follows are our tales--