Grandma is Dying

Author:  Susan L. Prince

Four years ago Grandpa died. While Grandma lives on, part of her, a big part of her died with Grandpa. He was everything to her. He died a few weeks before they would have celebrated 65 years together. Her heart broke and never recovered.

She has simply wanted to be reunited with her beloved since that day four years ago.
She is 90 years old. Grandma over the past year has been losing her mental capacity. Her short term memory is gone. Her physical health is starting to fail and she has been moved into a nursing care facility. Mom called me with some news today.

Grandma was admitted to the emergency room. The hospital decided to admit her and monitor her condition. She was bleeding from the rectum. The hospital gave her a pint of blood and Grandma just wants to know why they are putting blood back in. She wants to go. She wants eternal peace. She is embracing death and to her I don't think it is coming soon enough. It may or may not come now.

What should my response be to this? A human has an "instinct" to preserve life, but to Grandma her life has been over for four long years. She has no hope for a future and she can't even remember the immediate past. She simply exists. The family has decided to limit medical treatments that might prolong her life. There's all these legal things involved with that, but Grandma has signed some type of document allowing this decision. It is a difficult choice, but it is what Grandma desires. Her son, my dad, is in agony. He has only loved his family with the biggest heart a man could have, and only wants to do what is best and what is right. This is his mother. Oh, my heart hurts.

My Grandma is possibly bleeding to death at this moment. I may not ever see her again. My heart aches. Please pray for her and pray for my dad, that God's will be done through this and that all will seek His Comfort.