She sounds like a real fighter! Hope she continues to improve and comes through this fragile time to the best health she can achieve and you have many more years with her. A few years ago, my Dad was found to have a very large Aortic aneurysm and the fear I went through in the time coming up to the operation .... So I really felt for you and know a little of what you must be going through. He came through that (even though the surgeon didn't want to operate (ageist swine)) and we had a good eight or so years until he succumbed to old age and prostate cancer in 2004, so there is always hope! Jx