So I JUST got off the phone with mom.

And I guess, when mom got over to Seattle last night (nearly 11 pm by the time she got there - stuck for almost 2 hours because of construction ), everyone was sitting in the room upset, told mom that grandma had been really bad for a couple hours, but had finally leveled off not long before she got there. They suspected she was going to pass lastnight, but she's still holding on.

Grandma had another stroke , that caused her to go blind in one eye - now clouded over, she dosen't seem to hear anything - even with the hearing aids in, and she hasn't spoken a word or even tried to speak sens yesterday. She hasn't even opened her eyes all day, except for once when grandpa kissed her on the forehead, and it was only barely open.

The people at the nursing home had to put her on a special air matris because she now has bed sores - not from them/or the other hospital neglecting her, but from the fact she is soooo thin and frail the is literaly skin and bone, the thing blows up and deflaits.

She's back to refusing to eat, won't/can't do anything . They are taking shifts at the nursinghome, to make sure someone is with her 24 hours a day. Aunt P was there all lastnight-and today, and will be there tonight, mom's going up there at 2am to take over, Aunt M will be up there by mid-morning to take over for them.

Sure she's been able to bounce back a couple of times over the last few weeks, but I honestly don't see her bouncing back anymore, nobody does. She's going to die, and it's no longer a question of how long, it's a question of how soon.

In a strange way it seems only fitting that today is the first day that it has rained here in town in MONTHS, it's cold, windy, dark and gloomy outside. Grandma always liked the rain (the cold, not so much).

For the first time sens all this started to happen, the topic of preparing for a memorial service has been brought up .

We're all supposed to find pictures of ourselves with grandma... I don't have any , I never thought about it before, but I don't have any of just me and her, I don't even think I've got one of just me and my grandfather, sure I've got big family photos or small groups, but not just the two of us. Atleast I've still got time to get some with him.

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That's all the news I've got for now.

*hugs*