I feel too tired and frazzled to write a coherent entry right now, so just a couple of brief notes.
Terri was absolutely amazing -- again -- and Jill provided me with many useful answers and suggestions, as well as sitting vigil with me for a couple of hours. Thanks to Terri, I was able to get back to the bank today and make sure that the $700 I'd left in mother's account to pay the rent was in fact in her chequing account (it was). And thanks to Jill, I have several good places to send my mother's possessions that George and I won't be able to keep.
Today I wrote the draft for my mother's obituary. It wasn't half as hard as I feared it would be.
I also made a couple of calls to funeral homes and got widely varying prices on straight cremations: $1500 from one place and $715 from another. I'll make some more calls tomorrow to try to get a better idea of what's out there.
My mother's breathing changed twice today -- first to deeper and more measured inhalations, almost gasps, and then, about an hour before I left, to quick shallow breaths. This could be a sign that death is imminent; however, since the color of her skin is still good and neither her knees or toes are mottled with blood, it probably isn't really imminent. I elected to come home tonight and get some good rest.
Tomorrow Terri will run me out to my mother's place to pick up some valuables, then take me to the hospital. Did I mention that she's amazing? Tonight she came by and sat with me until George arrived, and was a real rock of support when I broke down a couple of times.
I have just taken a tranquillizer and had some pizza. Now off to bed, where I'll call George and talk with him for a while until the pill takes effect.
I got some good work done today, I think, with the help of my friends.
Terri was absolutely amazing -- again -- and Jill provided me with many useful answers and suggestions, as well as sitting vigil with me for a couple of hours. Thanks to Terri, I was able to get back to the bank today and make sure that the $700 I'd left in mother's account to pay the rent was in fact in her chequing account (it was). And thanks to Jill, I have several good places to send my mother's possessions that George and I won't be able to keep.
Today I wrote the draft for my mother's obituary. It wasn't half as hard as I feared it would be.
I also made a couple of calls to funeral homes and got widely varying prices on straight cremations: $1500 from one place and $715 from another. I'll make some more calls tomorrow to try to get a better idea of what's out there.
My mother's breathing changed twice today -- first to deeper and more measured inhalations, almost gasps, and then, about an hour before I left, to quick shallow breaths. This could be a sign that death is imminent; however, since the color of her skin is still good and neither her knees or toes are mottled with blood, it probably isn't really imminent. I elected to come home tonight and get some good rest.
Tomorrow Terri will run me out to my mother's place to pick up some valuables, then take me to the hospital. Did I mention that she's amazing? Tonight she came by and sat with me until George arrived, and was a real rock of support when I broke down a couple of times.
I have just taken a tranquillizer and had some pizza. Now off to bed, where I'll call George and talk with him for a while until the pill takes effect.
I got some good work done today, I think, with the help of my friends.
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