[RachelandSadie]

My great uncle who was more like a grandpa to me since my grandfather (his brother) died when my dad was young is about to be taken off all machines keeping him alive starting tomorrow. My heart is breaking. I haven't been talking about him on here because I've had some hope he would get better and go home back to normal (though normal was still bad off and not breathing well). He got pnemonia as a baby and twice again as he was older in his fifties. He has had a heart attack and wears a defib since the last pnumonia episodes. He has some lung disease thing, his lungs are shot and been on oxygen for quite some time now. Lately he just felt worse and couldn't breathe. took him to ER and blood pressure was 50/40 ish or something low like that. they were helping him some but then he coded TWICE and they put him on a ventilator thinking they'd take it off once he got good oxygen and his blood pressure came up. He's been on blood pressure meds and antibiotics thinking it was an infection that made him sick. Several days later, about a week i think they have no hope that he's going to get better and it's not looking like an infection is causing it but rather just weak lungs and heart. his heart is going into pulm hypertention due to working too hard on the right side to compensate the lack of oxygenated blood he's getting. he's just failing anyways. so the family decided today to take him off things tomorrow. he will die since he can't make it three min without everything shutting down on him without the vent. he never wanted to live off a vent so his wife is deciding it's time. i'm heartbroken to loose him but know he needs to be at peace and pain free. it's not fun to loose air and not breathe. prayers needed this is going to be really hard and i have to go say goodbye tonight.