Citana
August 11th, 2006, 01:27 PM
My grandmother, who is only 69 years old, has hepatitisC. She has had it since she had had multiple surgeries & blood transfusions in the 1970s. She contracted the disease during a transfusion when doing reconstructive surgeries for 4th &3rd degree burns which cover her body at that time. Now her liver is failing, and it is now coming to the end of the cycle which modern medicine can help her at all. Her kidneys have dried up as a product of her liver failure. There is little they can do for her. We are going to be trying other things the doctors say may help, but have little chance of doing so. If nothing works, the doctors say that as it gets worse, she will drift into a coma and slowly die. We have all know this day was coming, but it doesn't help much when it is here. Truthfully, I think we would have all been better off not knowing and her death be sudden and quick than all this suffering and waiting, knowing that what is going to happen is not going to be pleasurable for anyone. She has been the rock for our family keeping us together, and she is the one person I have always been close to and could count on. My daughter is almost three years old, and has become quite close to her as well. She doesn't really understand what is going on, and I fear the day that she can't go to see grandma anymore, which I feel is much sooner than we had expected. I pray that my daughter will see her spirit when she passes so that there is a sort of understanding for my daughter, and that she remembers to good days, not these past few spent in the hospital. I also want my grandmother to have as little suffering as possible in this, because she has gone through so much already. Healing energy for the entire family is appreciated as well as any that may help keep our beloved grandmother stay around just a little longer, or at least pass in peace.
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