This is a follow-up to the January 25 post about my mom (Joe’s grandma) who is 81 years old and is currently in the hospital with congestive heart failure.
By Saturday Grandma was out of intensive care, but the test that shows the congestive heart failure had actually gotten worse. Dr. Griffith, who is caring for her in the hospital, told my sister that he didn’t expect her to get any better.
Today she is not eating or drinking. She appears to be giving up. She sleeps and then wakes up moaning in pain. But when they ask her if she is in pain, she answers, “No.” Grandma appears to be “slowly dying,” but she could still hang on for days, weeks or even months yet.