Grandmother:
As some of you already know, my grandmother is pretty sick. She had surgery to remove the blockages in her upper legs on Friday. The surgery itself went pretty well, but she was under anesthetic for about 6 hours and was in shock for the next day. The doctors did some tests and decided that part of her colon had died because of the blood loss from the shock. They operated again to remove part of her colon Saturday night, and Sunday she was better. She is still on a respirator, but she's breathing a mix of oxygen and regular air and she is signalling that she is in pain. She seems to recognise my father. She can't talk because of the respirator and she is on a lot of morphine.
It's sort of touch and go right now. If she recovers, they may still have to amputate her right leg because the veins in her lower legs are too small to operate on, so if they are blocked her leg will have to come off. Her left leg seems much better than the right, so she will probably be able to keep it.
Ave Maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
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