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Family Update
May. 7th, 2007 09:58 amWell, my mother has been re-admitted to the hospice here in Ft. Worth.
We saw her last week (Wed.) at the hospice - the day before she was released to go back home to the Loft [ http://texasandpacificlofts.com ] with dad. At that time she was very weak and tired. Had some difficulty operating something as simple as the TV remote in the room. Very child-like at times. Anyway, they sent her back home.
We went and saw her again this past Sat. to see how she was doing and she was pretty cognizant of her surroundings and everyone coming by to visit. However, while Joyce and I were visiting with dad, she called my name from the bedroom (she'd gone in to rest.) She'd tried to get up out of the hospital bed (a-yup, dad moved a low-profile hospital bed into the bedroom.) to go to the bathroom and fell. So dad and I got her back up again and made sure she was ok. She is so tiny and frail.
Dad called yesterday (Sun.) and said he had her taken back to the hospice. She was jabbering all night long and fidgeted, fretted, worried, kicked covers off and struggled to pull them back on, etc. Fell out of the bed 2 or 3 more times during the night - on one occasion she'd crawled 1/2 way to the living room. He was up all night either helping her or keeping a watch over her and it was just too much for him by himself. So the hospice came and got her. They gave her morphine to try and settle her down - seemed to work when I talked to him last night.
This morning (Mon.) dad called and said he'd visited her about 2 AM this morning. The doctor's at the hospice said she is unconscious and unresponsive. So he spent some time with her, then went home and decided he'd better go ahead and write her obituary. He's making arrangements for a preliminary meeting with the funeral home to get all the arrangements set up. He called me to see about me going with him ... so I can get the process down for that day sometime in the future when i'll have to handle his arrangements.
On the plus side, As of Sat. night, both of them have finally and completely recognized that mom is terminal, and that time is exceedingly short for her. Poor dad ... 1/2 the time he's handling everything well, checking things off as the process continues ... the other half of the time he contemplates what life without my mother is going to be like. His friends and we three boys try to do all we can to keep his spirits up as much as possible. It sure is tough, though, to lose someone you've lived and loved with for 55 years.
Well ... that's all for the moment. I'll try and keep reporting in as things change.
We saw her last week (Wed.) at the hospice - the day before she was released to go back home to the Loft [ http://texasandpacificlofts.com ] with dad. At that time she was very weak and tired. Had some difficulty operating something as simple as the TV remote in the room. Very child-like at times. Anyway, they sent her back home.
We went and saw her again this past Sat. to see how she was doing and she was pretty cognizant of her surroundings and everyone coming by to visit. However, while Joyce and I were visiting with dad, she called my name from the bedroom (she'd gone in to rest.) She'd tried to get up out of the hospital bed (a-yup, dad moved a low-profile hospital bed into the bedroom.) to go to the bathroom and fell. So dad and I got her back up again and made sure she was ok. She is so tiny and frail.
Dad called yesterday (Sun.) and said he had her taken back to the hospice. She was jabbering all night long and fidgeted, fretted, worried, kicked covers off and struggled to pull them back on, etc. Fell out of the bed 2 or 3 more times during the night - on one occasion she'd crawled 1/2 way to the living room. He was up all night either helping her or keeping a watch over her and it was just too much for him by himself. So the hospice came and got her. They gave her morphine to try and settle her down - seemed to work when I talked to him last night.
This morning (Mon.) dad called and said he'd visited her about 2 AM this morning. The doctor's at the hospice said she is unconscious and unresponsive. So he spent some time with her, then went home and decided he'd better go ahead and write her obituary. He's making arrangements for a preliminary meeting with the funeral home to get all the arrangements set up. He called me to see about me going with him ... so I can get the process down for that day sometime in the future when i'll have to handle his arrangements.
On the plus side, As of Sat. night, both of them have finally and completely recognized that mom is terminal, and that time is exceedingly short for her. Poor dad ... 1/2 the time he's handling everything well, checking things off as the process continues ... the other half of the time he contemplates what life without my mother is going to be like. His friends and we three boys try to do all we can to keep his spirits up as much as possible. It sure is tough, though, to lose someone you've lived and loved with for 55 years.
Well ... that's all for the moment. I'll try and keep reporting in as things change.
