I’ve just spent a good little while holding Mom’s hand and talking with her hospice nurse Jeff who has been a wonderful human being throughout all this drama. It helps to have a third party around for grief counseling like he’s been doing with various family members all day.
She is breathing abdominally now and Jeff says this along with some other factors indicate it will not be long now. Mom’s friends Mildred and Wanda both came by to say their goodbyes and other folks have called to say they are on their way.
My brother Kevin called us about 3pm with news of a new as yet unnamed baby girl that has joined our family on this day. I was told the weight and dimensions and all that but I’ll be damned if they went in one ear and out the other so let it suffice to say she is tiny, fragile and shiny.
Jimmy Cain and Dan Niswander have showed up to say their goodbyes. It is so nice to have good friends such as these join us in a time like this. I expect we will know something more later so I will post again in the near future. Of course, you will know when she has passed when I post the obituary.
