Grandad

I just heard from mum that Grandad is in hospital again. She doesn't often ring me and she was talking in a way that made it sound very serious. He's been bleeding from the bladder again, had an operation to quarterise it to stop the bleeding and will have a transfusion of 3 bags of blood. I don't think I grasped how serious she was trying to indicate it was. He's been through all of the above before. Maybe it's because there's only so much his frail, weight losing, 94 year old body can take? Maybe it's because she saw him and the state he was in and i'm here in hobart distant from him? Granny was also even more worried than before, saying to mum to call Gerald and somebody else and somebody else. (i think Gerald is another relative, i can't remember at the moment).

Cathie (mum's sister) is coming to Launceston next Tuesday. Andrew is coming from Melbourne on Saturday. Dave just left for america today (with a meaningful goodbye from Grandad), I'm going up next weekend. Not sure what Phoebe&Dave are up to.

Mum said Grandad's memoirs are now published. Not sure how many copies they got printed - at least a couple of hundred i think it would be, they way printing costs are. Grandad said he wanted to see them finished before he dies. Now they are. Will he make it til his 95th birthday next Wednesday? I hope so, I hope i can see him when i go up next weekend (if needed i'll go up earlier). But who knows how many days, weeks or months God has for Lindsay C. Powell here on earth.