Please keep Bats and the family in good thoughts if you would as we face the 5th really close death in the last 4 years. We've lost her father, the aunt that lived with her family as she was growing up, one of our best friends, one of our long-time fantasy baseball league owners (just last year in stretch run), and now it looks like her mother will not make it through March.
She is in the late stages of Alzheimer's. She has long since stopped recognizing anyone and has little quality of life left. She's been diagnosed with pneumonia. She has a living will that states no live-saving measures can be performed. Which means no antibiotics to treat the pneumonia. Adding to the breathing issue, it seems that over the last few weeks she has basically forgotten how to eat/swallow. Hospice has said she realistically has no more than 4 weeks or so left.
We broke the news to the kids last night. It was rough for them. They've been in too many funeral homes in the last few years. Three of the kids were just devestated, and Alek (our 2nd son) just put up a wall and just seemed angry and stubbornly silent, didn't need hugs or comforting. It was a hard night.
Anyway, any good thoughts would be greatly appreciated as the family deals with another loss.
She is in the late stages of Alzheimer's. She has long since stopped recognizing anyone and has little quality of life left. She's been diagnosed with pneumonia. She has a living will that states no live-saving measures can be performed. Which means no antibiotics to treat the pneumonia. Adding to the breathing issue, it seems that over the last few weeks she has basically forgotten how to eat/swallow. Hospice has said she realistically has no more than 4 weeks or so left.
We broke the news to the kids last night. It was rough for them. They've been in too many funeral homes in the last few years. Three of the kids were just devestated, and Alek (our 2nd son) just put up a wall and just seemed angry and stubbornly silent, didn't need hugs or comforting. It was a hard night.
Anyway, any good thoughts would be greatly appreciated as the family deals with another loss.
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