So the surgeon removed my mom's appendix and some of her intestines due to a really bad infection. No one knows much in terms of details as to what/why, etc... Lots of questions at the moment and we probably wont get many answers till next week. Hopefully when all is said and done she recovers quickly and can get on with her life.

Right now I'm just feeling kind of trapped and useless up here. Not a lot you can accomplish by telephone/long distance and that is really frustrating.