At 10:32 AM 12/20/02 -0600, you wrote:
 >Realize, I'm a bit gun-shy -- the last time Mom & Dad came for Christmas 
my Aunt Elsie died.

Aack. . . .

 >Anyway, this is from my Aunt Lucille re: Uncle Marion. Mom just got off 
the phone with them and he seems to
 >be stable -- with air and transfusion going. They'll do an endioscopy (or 
however that's spelled) to see if he's
 >bleeding from the stomach.

My mother did that to herself with handfuls of Anacin every day to defeat 
the arthritis pain and keep working (at the deli, standing all day.)  The 
aspirin overload over ten years or so (!!) ate a hole in her stomach, and 
by the time we caught it, she'd lost almost all her blood from this 
ulcer.  (She said she coughed up "coffee grounds"--they said that
was dried 
blood and a sign of an ulcer.  She claimed her hemorrhoids were bothering 
her . . . it actually wasn't just that.)  They gave her three units or 
whatever it is and she got all right . . . but it was officially branded 
CHF, congestive heart failure, and she's on that medication to this 
day.  He is presenting exactly like her.  She got okay, but it was 
scary.  Three days in the ICU/CCU.    Thank goodness for modern medicine.

Prayer wheel spinning even now!
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