Praying your Gran heals quickly and fully. Hugs to her.
Good wishes for a quick recovery.
I hope everything goes well. 107, that’s amazing.
I hope she heals quickly and well. Mr. Legend had a great-grandmother who broke her arm at the age of 97 (she fell from a ladder while trimming a tree in her yard). She got tired of having a cast about four weeks in and cut it off herself. She healed just fine. I hope your grandmother is made of the same stuff!
She really needs to get well. Since I first became aware of her existence, I’ve been hoping we have a shot at a thread called “Ask the grandchild of the world’s oldest living person”. It could happen inside a decade!
I went to see my grandmother this afternoon. She was asleep, and breathing with a rasp. I didn’t wake her, but sat there for about ten minutes. She didn’t look good, it was almost hard to recognize her, somehow her face looked different. Tbat doesn’t make any sense, does it?
I just got back now from my karate class and there was a message blinking at me on my phone, from my father, to call him on his cell phone. The nursing home called my parents and my aunt, and it seems Grandma is not doing well at all, not even like she was in the afternoon when I saw her. They’ve been to the home, are now at home to eat, and will be going back.
I asked if I should go and my mom said I didn’t need to. There isn’t all that much room for a lot of people to crowd into her room. But this may be it so I’m going to call them again in an hour to see what’s happening and maybe go anyway. Even if I stay for a few minutes, I could hold her hand and maybe she would feel me there.
Nobody lives forever, but if anybody deserved to it’s Grandma.
I’ll be praying enough tonight that God will be calling to tell me to shut up!
Oh dear. 
I hope the situation improves.
I’ll redouble my good thoughts, Baker.
Hopefully she’ll turn a corner quickly, and be back in the weight room soon.
-D/a
This is an update:
Grandma won’t keep the oxygen on so it’s been taken out of the room. She is refusing to eat, and finds swallowing water difficult. She didn’t know my parents this evening.’
This is what the family has feared all these years, that she would have this kind of distress and pain at the end of her life. She has had a DNR order for years, and always specified no heroic measures to be used, like a feeding tube. I think she’s telling us she’s ready to go.
I think you’re right. 
I’m so, so sorry. I lost my grandmother recently, and it has a special kind of suck. hugs
Still hoping she pulls through and gets better and has several more years left. But don’t want her to be in pain or otherwise miserable.
I’m sorry Baker. I wish you both the best.
Sorry to hear that she isn’t doing well. You may want to talk to her doctors about if they think it’s appropriate to get a Palliative Care doctor involved to make sure that she is comfortable and not in pain. I agree with you that the most important thing is to make sure she has peace at this stage of things.
I’m so sorry, Baker. I will keep you all in my prayers. It’s hard to let them go, isn’t it?
May God grant you his peace and a quiet heart, whatever happens.
Thinking of you and hoping whatever the outcome is, that it’s for the best.
I am hoping for the best and sending good thoughts.
She is a comfortable as she can be. Yesterday afternoon her mattress was changed to a different one so she can lay back easier. Having to keep the leg in the cast more or less straight isn’t easy. She gets all the pain meds she needs but even that is becoming difficult because she doesn’t want to swallow the pills, so she’s getting something liquid that is place under the tongue I think.
She won’t hardly eat and doesn’t even seem to want to drink. When I get off work today I’ll go to see her again and I’m taking some soft fruit candies I ordered for her as a joint birthday/Christmas gift. They just arrived yesterday. She used to really love those, and sweets in general, maybe they might tempt her a little.
This is all very wearing on my mother and my aunts. Sheesh, my mother is eighty years old herself.
I’m sorry things have taken a bad turn. Give her a hug for me. Grandmothers are their own category of special people.
Baker I just read the latest on your grandmother. She is in my prayers, as are you and the family. I guess right now all we can pray for is whatever is best for her.
All the best Baker, but be prepared.
In my thoughts.