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my heart is with you in these sad moments
How are things going, Ches? Been wondering about you and your father's situation.
My mother-in-law's situation took its final, and rather inevitable, turn for the worse recently. She's gone from your standard health care to now comfort care and hospice care. The cancer is now too far advanced to do anything for her besides. The odd thing was noting recently how her hair has grown back and her appetite returned to add some meat to her, but those were also just signs that the chemo she was under stopped working.
So I'm up at her house, preparing a hospital bed in her room so that they can bring her back here with my wife by ambulance. It's all pretty surreal, particularly even for my wife who has been anticipating this for a long time, and yet I witnessed one of my brother's wives die of cancer at age 33 some years ago. Just the final, almost ceremonial-like preparations of fixing her hospital bed and the supporting equipment to keep her comfortable. It's a bit like packing for a long trip, except her trip will be leaving this world in days or weeks.
It's hard to think of these situations as blessings, but they do offer the opportunity to have a prolonged and planned goodbye with a loved one. But that's what life gives us.
Say strong, Ches, and feel free to PM me if you ever need to relate with someone going through similar experiences.
My mother-in-law's situation took its final, and rather inevitable, turn for the worse recently. She's gone from your standard health care to now comfort care and hospice care. The cancer is now too far advanced to do anything for her besides. The odd thing was noting recently how her hair has grown back and her appetite returned to add some meat to her, but those were also just signs that the chemo she was under stopped working.
So I'm up at her house, preparing a hospital bed in her room so that they can bring her back here with my wife by ambulance. It's all pretty surreal, particularly even for my wife who has been anticipating this for a long time, and yet I witnessed one of my brother's wives die of cancer at age 33 some years ago. Just the final, almost ceremonial-like preparations of fixing her hospital bed and the supporting equipment to keep her comfortable. It's a bit like packing for a long trip, except her trip will be leaving this world in days or weeks.
It's hard to think of these situations as blessings, but they do offer the opportunity to have a prolonged and planned goodbye with a loved one. But that's what life gives us.
Say strong, Ches, and feel free to PM me if you ever need to relate with someone going through similar experiences.