I would really appreciate it. My grandmother is very sick. She's been in and out of the hospital the past few weeks. She was released two weeks ago after being in for a week or so. She had to start back on antibiotic treatment where she was driving to the hospital twice a day for a 30 minute treatment that took 2-3 hours between driving, waiting, and recieving the treatment.

Last Saturday morning around 2:00am my Papa drove her to the emergency room because she had shooting pains in her stomach and she thought she had appendecitis. My dad and I had visited the week before and noticed that her belly was somewhat bloated looking. She is a very small woman at 90 lbs and so this was very noticeable on her. Turns out she had a hematoma on her stomach and it was filling with blood. The doctors thought she may need emergency surgery to remove it, but the first thing that had to be done was to reverse her blood thinning medication. By thickening her blood she was then at a high risk for stroke. She's had her ups and downs since then but they have decided to monitor the hematoma rather than operating. She has a scan schedualed for tomorrow to see if it's gone down in size.

The doctors also aren't sure if her pnemonia (the reason she was in the hospital a couple weeks ago) has returned (or never fully went away). She was doing much better last night when my dad left the hospital but she apparently had a very rough night. They had planned to move her from the CCU to another room for monitering and my dad was planning on driving home today (they live 3 hours away) but because she had such a bad night, she is staying in CCU and my dad isn't coming home just yet.

She is 80 years old and this is a lot for her body to handle, but she has a strong will to live and sometimes I think that's the only reason she's still here. However she got discouraged the yesterday when the doctor asked her if she had a living will. She's been sick and had hospital stays before, but nothing was ever asked about a will. We're not sure if the doctor is holding back on telling us something or if he just has a bad feeling about her prognosis.

So please, if you could spare a thought or a prayer, I would be so grateful. My dad is an emotional wreck right now and he is not the emotional type of person. We are all very worried.