It's with very mixed emotions that we share with you that Susan took her journey to heaven early this morning, leaving all her pain and suffering of our world behind. Susan had minimal suffering in her final days with Katy by her side, orchestrating all care giving with the utmost in love for her mama.
Susan, we love you and will carry your loving memories in our hearts forever.
Your loving husband and children.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Fighter
Mom is still going like a little energizer bunny on the last of its battery. She amazes me and my dad every day with her will to live. She is feistier at night time as that is when she is actually awake and has a little spunk. She didn’t have that great of a night last night as the pain medicine they have her on started to wear off and the nurse said we would have to up it because her body was using it up faster than normal. She said that it happens often though and not to worry that she needs more. The nurse also checked her lungs today and said that they sounded really good. Her breathing is about as half as normal but the nurse said that her breaths are nice and deep and she is getting enough oxygen.
We are blessed every day that mom is with us and know that she is going to go out on her own terms, and we wouldn’t expect anything different!
All for now….
We are blessed every day that mom is with us and know that she is going to go out on her own terms, and we wouldn’t expect anything different!
All for now….
Monday, August 2, 2010
Sad News
Well I’m going to jump right into this as time is short these days. Mom is not doing well and it started about right after I wrote the last blog. I didn’t want to write the “good news” blot last week, as I am superstitious, but my mom was feeling good at the time and wanted me to write about her feeling well…
Over the past week things have progressed at a fast rate. Mom started off sleeping a lot again and the disorientation/confusion has really set in now. My brother, Jay, and I think that she just gets her thoughts crossed together and they come out all jumbled when she talks. For example, she will start talking about something we all had been discussing in prior days, but most of the time just mumbles and talks about random things. We have been trying to reassure her and going along with what she talks about but it is hard to see her slip away like this. She has also been hallucinating a great deal; this morning she saw a bunch of Springer dogs playing out in the grass (when nothing was there). She cannot walk anymore as either dad or I have to lift her up from her bed / chair and put her in a transport wheelchair to get her to and from things.
I asked the nurse if she could tell me when she would go, and she just looked at me and said, “We’ll just say I would be surprised if she was here by the end of next week (which is this week)” So hearing that, Dad and I called the family to come up. Jay, Thuy, and the baby came on Friday and my Grandma and Aunt Robin came on Saturday. It has been a gamut of emotions over the last couple of days. However, we have been trying to keep some humor and mom has been doing well at keeping us laughing. Some of the things she says are a little too truthful and it is all you can do to keep from busting up when she says things. In the last couple of days she has been getting really feisty as well and just wants to get up and do things on her own. She doesn’t understand that she cannot do things on her own anymore but is determined to do things by herself. So if you all know anything about my mom she is not going to go without a fight!
Sorry it took so long again but my days are pretty full lately!
Over the past week things have progressed at a fast rate. Mom started off sleeping a lot again and the disorientation/confusion has really set in now. My brother, Jay, and I think that she just gets her thoughts crossed together and they come out all jumbled when she talks. For example, she will start talking about something we all had been discussing in prior days, but most of the time just mumbles and talks about random things. We have been trying to reassure her and going along with what she talks about but it is hard to see her slip away like this. She has also been hallucinating a great deal; this morning she saw a bunch of Springer dogs playing out in the grass (when nothing was there). She cannot walk anymore as either dad or I have to lift her up from her bed / chair and put her in a transport wheelchair to get her to and from things.
I asked the nurse if she could tell me when she would go, and she just looked at me and said, “We’ll just say I would be surprised if she was here by the end of next week (which is this week)” So hearing that, Dad and I called the family to come up. Jay, Thuy, and the baby came on Friday and my Grandma and Aunt Robin came on Saturday. It has been a gamut of emotions over the last couple of days. However, we have been trying to keep some humor and mom has been doing well at keeping us laughing. Some of the things she says are a little too truthful and it is all you can do to keep from busting up when she says things. In the last couple of days she has been getting really feisty as well and just wants to get up and do things on her own. She doesn’t understand that she cannot do things on her own anymore but is determined to do things by herself. So if you all know anything about my mom she is not going to go without a fight!
Sorry it took so long again but my days are pretty full lately!
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