Officially on Hospice

Mom is now officially on Hospice Care. This means, among other things, that we do not have to subject her to a trip to the doctor tomorrow.

The nurse was here for quite a while today, and wants us to give her morphine every 4 hours around the clock - even waking her to do so. She has also added an additional medicine to help with the nausea.

Mom has been getting weaker and sleeping a lot more over the past 4-5 days.

The other day she watched the DVD of Doug's memorial service, but she had a hard time hearing the words clearly, so today I read her the words that James had said about his grandpa (he had given her a copy of his "eulogy" the day of the service). She really appreciated it and it was good to see her laugh. Ron printed a picture of Mom and Doug sitting in our living room when they were here for Thanksgiving (last year??). I think they were having a conversation about how he was going to take her to Hawaii, and she was saying that it would cost too much. He said money was not a problem!

That's about all for now... thanks for the prayers. They are being answered.