You all know the title of my story...well let me tell ya how my week has been so far.

I got up just like always on monday, had to turn the heat on so I froze my but off till the temprature in the house got up to 60. I got my shower done and had just started to grab a towel when my phone started ringing...at 6:20 in the morning. It was my sister that lives 100+ miles away. She was calling to tell me that one of the special people in my life had been taken to the hospital and had been there for a week. Well, I was kinda backed up at work, so I had to go in, but I took tuesday and today off.

Yep, I had tuesday off, but that didn't make it any better. One of or dogs has really long hair, well when we let the dogs 'air out' before loading them into the trooper, she got shit all over her back side. We didn't use the heater for the first 50 miles, so we really didn't notice anything till then, but it got really bad, really fast.

If you think today had to be better, just wait...it was snowing when I woke up this morning, and I left the window down from the dog. Well, by the time I noticed the window, the front seats were covered with slush, so I was outside with a hair drier for 2 hours trying to dry out the seats. by the time I was done getting the seats dry enough to sit in, we had just enough time to get to the hospital before I had to head home for work in the morning.

Now, I know my grandmother is 88 years old and I know she has had a wonderful life(she even raced motorcycles when she was in her twenties) but to see the strong willed Matriarc(sp*) of my family, the woman that used to get up early enough to have 'Micky Mouse' pancakes waiting for me every Saturday when I was 6 years old; to see her down to 92 pounds, lying in that hospital bed, so thin and frail, was turly heart breaking. To know that today's good bye will be the final one I can give her, leaves an agonizing emptiness in my being.

I don't know when her time here will come to an end, I only know the end looms near, and can not seem to work concentrate on anything else at this point. I will continue writing IFLM, but I have got to take a break from everything for a while, so I just don't know when I will get the next chapter finished

Tom