We received further word that what MIL experienced was a full heart attack which, the doctors said, she should not have survived given her age of 94. At this time, she is bedbound, with oxygen, a chest tube for drainage of fluid around the heart, on diuretics, mostly talking gibberish about WWII, occasionally lucid, but the docs say another coronary is inevitable and she won't survive the next one. She has requested no life saving measures and does not want to be taken to hospital. She is more than ready to pass over.

It's hard on my husband. He did go over and spend 10 days with her in September, thank goodness, but with tickets to London at $3,000 each, we feel we must wait to go. Fortunately, we have the funds to make the trip.

Since I last wrote, our house has flooded.......pipe broke in the wall between our two full baths and did a lot of damage. One thing let to another and we are going to have to have demolition and reconstruction of walls and flooring due to mold. All of this on top of everything else. Since both bathrooms will be out of commission, they are going to do the work while we are gone to England. Really no other way to do it.

Send good thoughts our way.