Slow and Painful

My grandad is in the JR hospital. He's been in there for 9 days now. He went in due to being sick -- with blood in his vomit. He hasn't eaten for 9 days. It took the hospital 7 days to discover that he has a hernia that is blocking his bowel. He needs an immediate operation to clear the problem, otherwise -- as the surgeon put it -- he will die a slow and painful death.

Unfortunately -- due to the lack of food, as well as his low blood pressure -- he is too weak for the operation.

He has been given just "a few days or few weeks". They will do everything they can to make him comfortable.

Joy to the world.