It just keeps coming!

Well still trying to deal with the ignorant people in my life, I got the call that I most feared. My sister in law called to tell me that my grandpa was in teh hospital and no one was sure what was goign on or how he was doing since my parents were out of town and had the power of attorney to speak to the doctors. We had to wait all day Sunday and until late sunday evening for my parents to get back from Tennessee to see him and to find out what the doctors had found. We know that he fell down the steps, and we are not sure how long he was laying there unconscious and barely breathing till my brother and his wife found him. Right now they have him heavily sedated and are hoping that the bleeding in his brain has stopped. They are hoping to have him out of the sedatives by the end of the week to see how much physical damage has been done to his brain. This is a crushing blow for me as I lost my grandma 17 months ago and have still not recovered fully from that. They were married for what would have been 64 years this October. He has been having a rough time as well and we thought that he was doing great until he fell at his church a month ago and refused to see a doctor. The neurosurgeon seems to think that started this and he has been falling ever since but refusing to tell anyone for fear of being placed in a rest home. The nurse told my parents and I Sunday evening that he was probably hearing us and that they believe he has brain activity because if you told him to do something he would try it, but he was so heavily sedated that he was unable to respond verbally or open his eyes. Please spare a few thoughts and prayers for my grandpa. I told him it was not time for him to go, that there was still things needing to be done here before he got to go see grandma. Let's hope that he heard and will come out of this.