...Not so much

Well it's been a week since I last posted and I see how much everyone missed me and my regular posts... (sniff). Anyway, Plumberboy's grandmother is in the very last stages of the dying process as I type this so I'm going to be out of pocket for a while. There will be lots of family around and eventually a funeral, etc plus we'll have to catch up on all the stuff we're shrugging off at this time.

GG (as we like to call her) is one of my favorite people. She was diagnosed with a 13 cm cancerous mass on her liver eleven months ago. To put it in perspective, it took up more than half of her liver and any mass over 5 cm on the liver is considered inoperable. In other words, you need a liver transplant to fight a mass of that size. We only found out about the liver mass after a hospitalization for some neck pain that was the result of her breaking her neck a few weeks before. She is a tough old broad to say the least. GG always treated me like blood family, maybe even better, and we loved to talk politics, etc. In fact, I was just up there early last week laying on her bed, watching Fox News and talking with her about the upcoming Democratic convention. She was very lucid until just the past few days and sat up to have a beer only two nights ago. Seriously, most of us "young folk" would have been dead in a matter of weeks with a liver mass of that size... we certainly wouldn't have been able to hold our liquor. She's an amazing woman and she really, really loves her family. We'll miss her a ton but we're ready for her to go home to wait for us there. Thanks GG for all the memories and thank you Jesus for opening The Lifegate so that all may go in.