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    My mother, Pinkmoon

    My last post was a plea for help. Things seemed to get very bad very fast. Then at 11:15pm on February 12th, I held my mom's hand and watched her take her last breath. My heart is aching, but I can see her so happy and so free in Heaven already. And she is already making sure I know she's...
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    I'm getting scared...

    zoohouse - She doesn't want additional fluids that would only prolong the inevitable. She will ask for them sometimes like yesterday, but she doesn't want to be on a schedule of getting them. We also tried a catheter a while back when she didn't want to get up to go to the bathroom anymore and...
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    I'm getting scared...

    She is getting about 80-100 mL's a day. Today she asked for extra fluids in her tube. I'm guessing her body was craving hydration. She is still producing urine, but it is hard to tell how much. She only lets us change her diaper twice a day because it is so taxing on her energy level to do...
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    I'm getting scared...

    Thank you all. I have been reading about signs of death. They separate them into two categories. The first category being the one I think she is in and they estimate 2 weeks of this. The next category is approximately 3 days and involves a coma or semi-coma condition. She will still be...
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    I'm getting scared...

    My mom is at the end. You all have been an immense help from the beginning, before we even had a diagnosis. I need you now more than ever. She has slept all day for the past two days. Today she got oxygen and I think that is part of it. But I think we are also just close to "the end". What...
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    I am not coping very well

    Kim, you sound just like me! My mother and I have never seen eye to eye on a lot of things, we just think differently. So we still butt heads a lot, even though we should be spending these precious last moments together in better ways. She was diagnosed December 2012 and we are near the end...
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    Comfort Medicine Suggestions

    @affected - Hospice comes every week and is aware of her condition. They haven't been the great help that we thought they would be. The RN keeps pushing the morphine and I keep telling her that my mom doesn't want the morphine because it makes her feel worse. I was the one that had to suggest...
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    Comfort Medicine Suggestions

    Hello, everyone. My mom's discomfort level has recently increased rapidly and drastically. We are reaching the very end of this battle and comfort is priority above all else. Hospice has provided liquid morphine drops that they say help her breathing (maybe by making her more calm?) and also...
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    Starting tube feedings

    jellis - We are doing gravity feeding with an open syringe. She passed her swallow study in July when the tube was placed and so her insurance (Medicare and BCBS) isn't covering any supplies. The pump would be great because right now I am going to her house every 2-3 hours to do a feeding (she...
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    Starting tube feedings

    Not an option at this point. She refused to do the feedings after the first bad experience, but when she choked really bad last night she decided nothing more by mouth. Thank you for guiding me to your post, I will go take a look.
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