What does a girl have to do to get some comments around here?  Tapdance naked on top of an ice cream truck?

Umm.  Nevermind.

Anyways.

Grandfather:  extremely sickly, extremely stubborn.

He wants to cease treatment.  His intuition tells him that if he doesn't have surgery and just goes home that he'll do just fine.  The doctors think he's a little nutters.

When we left at about 1:30 eastern time this afternoon, he still had to talk to his priest, his family doctor, and the psychiatrist that his hospital doctor summoned for consultation.  I don't think that any of them will be able to convince him that he needs to stay in the hospital and have the surgery, but whatever happens will happen.

The only time I got really upset was when they told me I couldn't go in the room because I've been coughing for the past two weeks.  My mom gave the head nurse the "Her grandfather's going to die and she hasn't seen him in five years" speech and I got to put on a surgical mask and go inside.

I was in there for 10 or 15 minutes before he even realized it was me.

First he thought I was Koren, my brother's fiance.

Then he thought I was one of his nurses.

When I pulled my mask off for a few seconds and my mom said, "Umm, no.  Your grand-daughter Sarah," he laughed a little and looked kind of embarassed.

Silly man.

If there's a funeral, it'll probably be in the next three weeks.  If one isn't needed, I'm going to go see him again after school gets out.