Always hope

My best friend's mom is in the hospital, and my friend seems to have lost all hope. It's just so sad, and I am not very good at this. I tend to think everything will be ok, that is just me, and how I manage. My friend on the other hand, who is struggling with her mom's mortality, is feeling very doomed, and I don't know how to help her.

Her mom, who is 70, has pneumonia. Her right lung is apparently filled with fluid, and her diaphragm was being taxed, so the Dr's thought it was best to put her on a ventilator. I think the sight of that has flipped my friend out, and her poor mother is strapped to a bed with the contraption, and she is being fed through a tube.

I want to make everything better, I don't want my friend and her family to suffer. Her mom is a tough woman, one of the toughest, she has to fight this, and not give up. My friend needs keep the hope so that her mom can feel it.

Being human is so unfair...knowing about our own mortality, and that of those we love is so brutal.

For my friend, who I love dearly, I will keep the hope for your mom, it is the only thing I can do for her right now, and she has all of my wishes and prayers. And if you need to cry, I am here for that too. I love you Brig, you and your mom are in my heart and soul.