What do you do when someone you love is sick, and there's nothing you can do? It's bad enough that Aunt Vi doesn't know who I am, and Grandma just seems to be getting worse every time we see her...now, we think Pappap had a stroke. It's one of those things that you really just want to do something and fix, but there's nothing you can do but wait. We told Mommom and Aunt Lynn to get him to the hospital, but he's really going to fight going there. He has a doctor's appointment at 9:20 tomorrow morning, but we don't want them to wait that long - what if he doesn't make it to 9:20? He seems fine now, but if he just passed a blood clot, it has to go somewhere, and if he had a ministroke, then there's a good chance that there's a major one coming.

I love my grandfather. He's one of the people I respect and admire most in the world. I'm naming my daughter after him. I don't know what my life would be like without him, but I'm not ready for him to get sick(er) on us, and I'm *definitely* not ready for anything really bad to happen to him.

I know there's just as much of a chance that everything will be fine as there is that something bad will happen, if not a better chance, but what do you do when you're more afraid of the possibilities than words can express?