I’m not creative enough at the moment to come up with another title for these… Also, I hope you guys get an email notification about this post. I think I have all the settings right on it…
I just thought I would give everyone a little update on where we are at with everything. I got to Florida this past Saturday to be with my mom and help out with things.
The past couple weeks, my mom has had a pretty steady decline. She started hospice almost 2 weeks ago and finally started taking some strong meds that, combined with other things, are helping with her pain. It is hard though, because you walk a fine line between keeping her comfortable and not wanting to sedate her too much with the pain meds. She’s having trouble walking on her own now and we’ve gone from just preferring to have someone around to needing someone around. We haven’t made the switch to having someone come in to help yet, but I think we are about at that point. She’s not really eating and she’s dozing on and off all day. Of course each day is a little different, but that is overall the case.
If you tried to contact her over the last week, you probably did not get a response. She’s been having more trouble talking and has trouble concentrating on things for too long. I have read her text messages to her and will read messages here to her.
This is definitely going a lot faster than any of us anticipated. I’m just happy that they were able to figure out something to help her feel a little more comfortable.
Lots of love to you all.