posting here but I need to share what I found out yesterday. At lunch with my oldest son yesterday, he gave me the news that his paternal grandmother has brain cancer and is only expected to live another three months. Apparently she either isn't concious or something. He called it "looped out."

I divorced my son's dad over 30 years ago, but I never divorced my MIL. She was a sweet, kind hearted "Oakie." She taught me a lot about the "old ways" and even called me on some things she thought might be abuse when I just had my daughter. I don't think she was right, we had our go-round, settled our differences and became fast friends and confidants. Above all, we learned to respect each other's differences.

Right now, I'm having a very difficult time wrapping my brain around that this precious woman is suffering such an agonizing death. I guess I'm still in shock. She's the only one I've called Mom since my own mother died. My heart is broken.





<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>