Final Days

[Guest guest]

I want to thank all of you who have shared your stories and have offered words

of great wisdom over the past year that I've been reading this list. My mother

(89) is in her final days (according to Hospice) and the stages have all been

exactly as you all have said they would be. My family has appreciated knowing

what was to come and have made some important decisions about medication and

other things based on the information that I have read on this list. My father

was in " keep her alive at all costs mode " until we convinced him that that was

not the most humane thing to do at this point. She began refusing food and

medication about 2 weeks ago and we are respecting her wishes.

She is resting comfortably most of the time now and is getting morphine for

the times when she becomes aggitated. My mother is profoundly deaf (for the

last 50+ years) so communication has been our biggest issue now that she will

not open her eyes.

Thank you again.

Janel

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