Just found out that my favourite aunt, my great aunt who is 78, went to Tennessee with a friend and mysteriously started vomiting blood a few days later. They can't control the internal bleeding, they put her in ICU and now she is on life support with failing kidneys. They say she probably won't make it, as they can't figure out where the internal bleeding is coming from - possibly her colon.
I am super close to my grandma, who doesn't have many good people in her life since my dad is dead and I live here, so she relies on her "little" sister for so many things. She was crying her eyes out on the phone, and to me, there isn't a more heartbreaking sound than my grandma crying. The sound is all the more heartbreaking when the person she needs most, me, is not there to comfort her.
Also, my grandma is 80 and can't drive to Tennessee to be with her sister - if I was there, we'd have been in my car in 5 minutes and I would have driven her to Tennessee myself.
Instead a relative is going to Dallas to pick her up and take her to Shreveport to be with a few other family members, so at least she won't be alone.
I'll just be devastated if my aunt dies and I can't be there to go to her funeral or comfort my grandma.
Also, my mom called to tell me what happened (she found out yesterday and just phoned me today - thanks), but said she wasn't sure if she should call me, as she hadn't heard from me in a few weeks and I said I had a cold when I talked to her last. WTF?! I have hayfever, but I'm not dying. And I spoke with her last Wednesday.
She always makes everything about her somehow.
