Anything but Silence
Aug. 20th, 2015 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfinblazeMy mother died at 5:30 this morning.
After I posted yesterday, we got a call from the hospital that she was deteriorating fast. Their estimation of weeks to live was revised down to days. We immediate went to see her.
She looked terrible, like she'd withered over night: gaunt, with her skin melting away from her face, eyes bulging, jaw sunken.
She mostly drifted out of consciousness/sleep/awareness, but she was responsive enough to recognise us (her family), and even smile when she saw her grand-daughter.
But she wasn't even aware of us leaving last night. Too out of it.
My sister stayed with her, until my brother went to relieve her at 3am.
He was with her when her rattling breathing eventually slowed and stopped. She had a "Do Not Resuscitate" order, so that was it.
We all flew back to hospital.
They let us stay as long as we needed.
I don't know what else to write. No other words are coming to me.
...
After I posted yesterday, we got a call from the hospital that she was deteriorating fast. Their estimation of weeks to live was revised down to days. We immediate went to see her.
She looked terrible, like she'd withered over night: gaunt, with her skin melting away from her face, eyes bulging, jaw sunken.
She mostly drifted out of consciousness/sleep/awareness, but she was responsive enough to recognise us (her family), and even smile when she saw her grand-daughter.
But she wasn't even aware of us leaving last night. Too out of it.
My sister stayed with her, until my brother went to relieve her at 3am.
He was with her when her rattling breathing eventually slowed and stopped. She had a "Do Not Resuscitate" order, so that was it.
We all flew back to hospital.
They let us stay as long as we needed.
I don't know what else to write. No other words are coming to me.
...
