Grandmother

I spent the last week in New York City, supposedly looking after my grandmother while my dad was recovering from his own surgery. She never got out of the hospital though and I really wasn't able to do anything but visit her every day for a few minutes, which was something but not nearly what I was hoping to do in coming up. She is a mean old Italian woman that grew up in WWII Italy, and is currently facing her third fight with cancer while suffering from Lue Gerig's disease in her throat and mouth. She is hard of hearing and recently had to have a feeding tube put in. I just wish there was more that I could do, but she can't stand for anyone to even clean her house without her there, yet alone clear out all the weeds that have overgrown her backyard garden. Shes just too stubborn, concrete, and independent... I wonder where I get those traits?