Well I have a couple weeks coming up that are going to test me quite a bit. My grandfather has been very ill for the past couple months and I am flying down on Wednesday to go and help my grandmother out while he is in recovery. I have had a hard time comprehending what has happened to my grandfather the past couple weeks. He was sick with an infection in his galbladder. This soon turned into finding a heart problem and having triple bypass surgery and two valves replaced. Now he has had 2 heart attacks since and a stroke. He can't breath, he had to have a trach tube put in so that his lungs wouldn't collapse. He has yet to have his galbladder taken out and now will have to have a pace maker put in as well. He was well enough to take care of himself throughout every day until he went into the hospital. I don't understand how a seemingly healthy man can walk into a hospital with a stomach ache and now is bed ridden in a hospital and has yet to recover from it. I know the doctors are there to do their jobs and I understand that they know what they are doing, it just is a very uneasy feeling going day to day not knowing whether it's going to be a good day or a bad day for him. He is in so much pain and has began falling into a depression. I love my grandfather with all my heart and am getting rather nervous about going to see him. I want to see him, I truely do, I am just scared of not being able to keep my own emotions under control when I am with him. He has not been allowed to eat or drink anything and he is attatched to all sorts of machines and I just wish I could take away all his pain. I need to stay strong and be there for my grandfather and my grandmother. I know this will only make me stronger in the long run, I just wish that he was better. Please keep him in your prayers, I greatly appreciate it and wish me luck on my trip in a few days.
