i found out tonight that my gramma has chronic pulmonary hypertension, most likely caused by fen-phen (that diet drug). pulmonary hypertension means high blood pressure in the lungs. chronic means fatal. what i'm reading says some patients can live as many as 15 years with it.. but this all depends on if their body reacts to certain drugs well. if not, they are put on a continuious catheter of something, put on oxygen, or something else drastic like that. heart/lung transplants are last resorts. i hope that somehow, the doctors are wrong about this. that my gramma will be okay... i lost two grandparents within a year of each other and i'm still not okay after that... my two great grammas are doing very poorly health wise and getting dementia, etc. i can't handle loosing another person i love now.