Since my grandmother's death, my grandpa - who she married when I was eight, so we're not technically relatives, genetically speaking - has been acting strange in the realm of someone who is mourning. Two weeks after he interred my grandmother's ashes down in Pensacola he packed all his belongings and moved up to Columbus, thus isolating himself ( Read more... )

My grandmother's kidneys are functioning at 20%. First of all, she is suffering from polycystic kidney disease, for which there is no known cure, and it's hereditary. Second, she has nephritis, which is an inflammation of the glomeruli, which contain capillaries and that filter fluid out of the blood. Her glomeruli are to inflamed to function ( Read more... )