Thank you to my dear friend A for sending this Phillip Phillips song for a pain free moment with mom.
Daily Archives: December 19, 2013
Be Repeating
We have our time. Hospice tomorrow at 9:00am. Not what we are hoping for, but mom needs to transition to new medication before they move her.
Dad and I are not leaving her side until she is through the hospice doors and in her ‘new home’.
Now we repeat with every painful moment:
Mama, we are here.
Mama, we love you.
Mama, today is Thursday. Michelle comes on Saturday.
Mama, we love you.
Mama, today is Thursday. Wendy and Peter will be here soon. Rea and Gail are coming tomorrow. Michelle is here on Saturday.
Mama, we are here.
Be Stealing Chairs
Social workers rule! If you know one, hug them.
C-Warrior, our social worker just stole us a chair from another floor.
It looks like mom will be going to hospice tomorrow. We are staying with her til she transitions to hospice.
Here’s C-Warrior after stealing the chair:
I have purposely backlit her to protect her identity. What a light she is!
Here’s dad pre-chair stealing:
Be fighting for life then death
Dearest family, friends and blog followers,
I don’t say this lightly nor without the awareness that the words I write can bring emotions, triggers and thoughts.
Yesterday, the surgeon informed as that the surgery was a success but that the cancer had spread throughout mom’s abdomen. It was a mess in there.
Yesterday, we moved from fighting for mom’s life to fighting for mom’s death. Mom does not want to die in the hospital. We do not want her to die in the hospital.
Yesterday, dad and Sexy Neck took a tour of Hospice House. They were overwhelmed with the love, support and homey feeling. They both emphatically expressed that this was the place for mom. They even have a playroom.
Yesterday, we met with the Palliative Care Coordinator we got connected with in the summer through my sister’s diligent connection making.
Here is MM explaining things to mom:
What a lovely, hardworking, caring and strong human being in a nurse uniform. (Reminds us of our midwife!)
Today, we move mom to Hospice House.
Today, we celebrate mom leaving the hospital forever.
Today, we shift our fight for life to relaxing and enjoying time with mom.
Be A Giver of Great Gifts
Look who came to visit nana and I tonight:
Santa, the giver of great gifts!
Thank you to all the Santas in our lives right now.
Great gifts:
– Booking flights from Australia, Spain, Whitehorse, Vancouver.
– Heartfelt Prayer
– Thoughts about my mom and our family
– Food and water
– Kind, gentle care
– Good pain medication. (Just say yes to drugs when you have cancer.).
– Facebook messages/Blog comments
– Pictures to share with mom from afar.
– Michelle Miller (Pain Specialist) taking the helm.
AND so many other things.
Full of gratitude for God’s great mercy and for how He has used people in our lives today to help mom.
Be Eating A Liquid Diet
Mom ate some jello and cranberry juice!
Awesome!
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More news to share tomorrow. Just trying to take it all in today. Whew!
"Be" ENOUGH 