......And I wake Up Alone
The fact I didn't have a properly sad userpic should make me happy because it indicates I'm not a generally sad person, but it doesn't help here.
My great-grandfather passed away in his sleep last night. He's been having problems with his health lately-he's a diabetic and hasn't really wanted to continue his blood tests. He's been getting blood transfusions quite frequently and was diagnosed with blood leukemia a few years ago. Christmas he was admitted to the hospital as he hadn't gone for a blood transfusion in some time and wound up with a seriously low blood count. He's been going and back tot he hospital quite frequently and managed to fall a few weeks ago and it was revealed he was walking around with pneumonia. He's been in the hospital since and they were talking about putting him in a home as he was really weak and my great-grandmother couldn't care for him properly anymore as he was resisting her attempts to help him.
This is really hard right now and it makes me fear for my mother even more. She's lost a good friend, a close cousin, her boyfriend, and her beloved grandfather all within a 6 month time-span and 3 of those people have died since December. My grandmother was in AZ taking care of my grandfather and I'm in school 300 miles away. My mother and my sister are arch enemies and she isn't very close to her sister. She doesn't have anyone to be there for her right now and she claims she wants to be alone but I know it has to be hard for her to cope with this. Please keep our family in your prayers and especially my mother as I'm sure she needs all the support she can get.