It's probably too late to be regretting what I should or should not have done. The inevitable's coming, be in no doubt about that. It's just a matter of time. Days, rather.
Her right lung has already filled with fluid and her left is barely functioning - just down to one-fifth of its total capacity. My grandmother is one strong lady but even Mother Nature has her way at times and this unfortunately is one of them. She is completely dependent on oxygen because the doctors tried to take her off it for 2 hours today and it went downhill from there, so they put her back on.
She can't eat because she's already so weak and can barely breathe. Just 4 mouthfuls is enough to make her exhausted. Sleeping is the only way the body knows how to conserve what little precious remaining power there is and that's exactly what it did. To that effect it has slurred her speech and has made her totally unable to finish more than 6 sentences before running out of puff at the 7th.
I guess after 90 years, your body simply does not want to work any more. It's seen its fair share of abuse and care over the years but no matter what you do, us being humans, it all comes to an end one day. It's never in our psyche to believe that we can fall one day and never get back up again but this is exactly what's happening to my grandma now, right in front of my very eyes.
Whichever holy being is up there, I strongly urge you to send your messenger down and deliver the final rites. It would mean so much to us. Please.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment