Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Mom's health diminished greatly after our last meeting with the staff. She was fidgety on Sunday morning and when I asked if she needed anything she said "I don't know". She said "hi" to Gemma at dinnertime on Sunday, but she has not spoken since. She ate only 25% of her meals on Sunday and it still took over an hour to eat. She could not swallow at all Monday or Tuesday. Mom has a DNR (do not resuscitate) and her health care directive states no life saving measures, so we will not use feeding tubes. She got morphine yesterday and some anti-anxiety medication. She looked relaxed and more herself after the morphine. She will come home Thursday, rather than today, so hospice has time to get things in place.

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  1. I'm happy you are able to be there for your mom...blessings to all of you.

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