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Well, we drove home last night to beat the winter storm. My grandma is still in Intensive Care on the Ventilator. She has a major tumor (Cancer) on her intestines. They are running tests to find out what kind of cancer, if it has spread, etc... today. She was knocked out by the drugs they gave her to stay asleep, and has had a hard time waking up, but this morning my dad called to say that she was awake and following commands. The Neurologist said that all indications that she is functioning normally (no stroke) are very good.

My Grandma's religion is Christian Science, and that means that she believes in healing herself, not in doctors, hospitals, medicine, etc... but we are hoping that she will choose to have the surgery and get the tumor removed. The tumor has been there for a long time (years) and has been slowly sucking the blood from her body, and recently it got so big that is taking more blood than she can produce. That is why she got so sick. Plus, with the low blood count, it allowed her to get pneumonia and a blood infection. The congestive heart failure was because when the gave her blood transfusions they pushed them too fast- they gave her meds to loose the excess water retention and that is working...

She is still very sick, and unfortunately when I left yesterday, she was not awake. When my dad told her that we left last night, and had been with her all weekend, she started crying. I am driving back up Friday to spend the weekend with her.

I keep repeating "God will not give me more than I can handle" because my daughter got sick yesterday morning, and we had to drive home with her sick- woke up this morning and my sister-in-law was taken to the ER because she thought her water broke and was having contractions (she is 2 1/2 hrs away). She is not due until April 1.....

I am a week behind in my college classes- I missed 2 exams this weekend...

"God will not give me more than I can handle.
God will not give me more than I can handle...
God will not give me more than I can handle...."

p.s. Thank you everyone who took time out to pray for my grandma and send well wishes. It is comforting to know that I can turn to you when I need a boost!