Final Days

As of 10:00pm Mom had been sleeping for 26 hours straight. Her breathing became more and more difficult, with moans and gurgling in her breathing. I continued to give her the most amount of pain medications I was instructed, but nothing seemed to bring her relief. I called on the hour every hour to the hospice nurse when around 3:30 the triage nurse told me that we could be coming up to the end stages of her life.

By 5:00am a hospice nurse arrived and gave us instruction and explained what we can anticipate. In her best guess mom might make it through the day and maybe until tomorrow morning, but regardless of exactly how much time she has we are within the last day or even last hours.

The family including mom's brother Brent and tons of friends have been at the house all day. We have been sitting around her bedside holding her hand, telling stories and laughing. Apparently the last function that remains is hearing. Even though mom cannot move or respond to anything, she can hear every word.

She is now relaxing without pain and several days ago she seemed to be at peace when she asked a couple of her friends to speak at her funeral.