Wow... what can you say to that. It's great that you're taking everything in stride, and enjoying the time you have. God bless ya.
I remember when my grandma died... she went in for surgery to get rid of a tumor that was putting pressure on her brain. It was a quality of life sorta thing, not so much life-threatening at the time. The doctors said she'd walk better and her handwriting would become legible again, things like that. But she doesn't wake up after the procedure... for a week or two she was in some sort of coma. Then she opened her eyes, and gradually we could see awareness in them. She couldn't talk, but she was beginning to be able to move her extremities and it seemed like she was making a recovery. We had her moved from the hospital to some place where they'd keep an eye on her. I don't know if it was carelessness on the part of that new staff but... she threw up in the night and suffocated with no suction or anything in place to clear her passages.
I got the chance to say some things to her when she was "awake" for that small period (under the assumption that she could hear me), but I never knew that the day before the surgery, when I nonchalantly returned her goodbye, that it was the last time I'd hear her voice.
Cherish the time, just as you are. You can tell your dad that a fellow Wii-bowler sends his greetings. And that my ball always seems to curve to the left, too (even in the game). Wiiiiii!
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later." -C.S. Lewis
"We all make choices... but in the end, our choices... make us." -Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
Prediction: Wii passes 360 in US between July - September 2008. (Wii supply will be the issue to watch, and barring any freak incidents between now and then as well.) - 6/5/08; Wow, came true even earlier. Wii is a monster.
