SUPERGRAN!

My grandmother is NUTS! The woman is completely amazing, I tell you. I was watching her cook today and I was like, damn! I swear she's got more energy than me :P (That's not saying much but whaddaheck. You get my point :P)

Let's start from the beginning (so to speak). In 1989, Mrs. Olive Frances Fernandez was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In other words, cancer. Doctors gave her 2 weeks max to live. My dad and his friends prayed over her and took her for a HUGE healing rally and before you know it, she's back on her feet and walking around like it never happened. Funnily enough, the doctors who diagnosed her died a few years later.

Over the past 16 years she's had a mild heart attack, a ruptured appendix, more falls than is healthy for an above-70 year old and water in the lungs. And every time we expect her to die, she's back on her feet. The amount of times we've been prepared for the "inevitable" can fill a book! Every year it's, "Never mind la.. poor thing. She hasn't got long left" and she gives all a kick in the head and lives another 5 years :P She's AMAZING, I tell you!

And now at a grand old age of 91, she's still cooking her own meals, going to the saloon at least twice a week to do her hair, writing dozens of letters a week to relatives in God knows where and playing Scrabble. Yup, and beating me at it too. *looks shame faced* I know, I know.. I'm pathetic. I have won once or twice, but normally she helps me out. Sigh. Double dose of patheticness.

But come to think about it, I'm not surprised God's given her such a great level of energy and alertness at this age. It's fantastic to watch her. She prays for hours a day, and she never worries about anything. Talk about total surrender :) But I guess no one can understand the power of God better than she can. She's been a recipient of it more times than I can count.

Here's to Super Grandmother! May thy faith never grow less! (Highly doubtful it will anyway :P)