Dec 20 2008
Mom is coming home - under hospice.
Mom’s coming home tomorrow or Monday. Hospice is coming today to set up her bedroom for her arrival. She’ll have a hospital bed and a bipap machine and a nurse will be coming 2-3 times a week to manage her care. I’ll be given medicines to also help manage her pain while they’re gone. Basically, it’d countdown time, although I’ve been told that she could rally and have a stretch of good. But, her lungs are too far damaged as is her heart. This isn’t what I want for her. I wish to God she’d stopped smoking LONG before they diagnosed emphysema. But, she’s was diagnosed 20 years ago. How many live 20 years with emphysema? She’s a very strong woman who outlived the odds. This is not the end I wanted for her. I know damned well this isn’t the end she wanted. I still wish she’d just waited for me to get her walker out!! It might not have made a difference, but she wouldn’t have injured ribs preventing her from taking deeper breaths.
