* -- * -- * johnny knew the news would hit all of them especially hard.-his dads family had loved his mother , janet , ever since she had come to ireland as bruces wife and they had all just fallen in love with grandmother lydia when they came in from ireland for his and chrissys wedding.-there had been twenty-two of them who came all the way from county galway to wish them happiness and grandmother had welcomed all of them into her home.-considering that lydia had been estranged from her own daughter for more than twenty-three years and had become cold and bitter toward everybody ; that was a miracle in itself.-when chrissy and her mother , penny , befriended her , lydia had thawed out completely and had even made a trip to ireland to visit with her daughter , johnnys mother , and her family.-when one realized that before that lydia hadnt even been to the local grocery store for almost ten years ; that was miracle number two.-it seemed such a shame that it would be this point in time that she would become ill and not be able to do the things that she now wanted to do.- neither chrissy nor johnny had slept very well that night and the first thing when they awoke , they called the hospital .