I've posted about my grandmothers before. They're both 89ish, both as healthy as can be expected, a little high blood pressure, but nothing out of the ordinary. My father's mother, my Nana, drove herself into a ditch this summer, and therefore has lost her independence. She had a frontal lobe bleed.

She's not taking this lying down. She has left her assisted living home in Texas, and headed back to Florida (was determined to drive there, but from what I've understood, she gave in and flew). She no longer owns her home there, my uncle and aunt do. We're not sure where she is, and what she's doing.

On the other hand, my maternal grandmother is just winding down. She sleeps more, feels tired, gets dizzy, can't hang out at family gatherings for very long - spent a couple of hours with us on Christmas Day, and that was pretty good for her.

One will go out with a bang, and one will just switch out like a light - probably in her sleep. They've led long, healthy, full lives. I love them both, but I will not mourn their passing when the time comes. I will enjoy them while they're here, and celebrate the lives they've lived when they're not. I'm not sure either of them are going to be HAPPY living too much longer - although it's tough to say. I hope for them that they live up to that point, that brink of happiness, so that their last days are joyful.

This will be hardest on my girls, though. They adore them, and don't understand completely, despite our brushes with death this past summer.