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RIP Mom
3 months ago
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This is going to be a series of post snippers to provide history.
12/17/25
My dad just called, my mom was having fainting spells this morning, and she fell in their home and hit her head very very hard. Just had one cat scan done, there's a brain bleed, and it could go either way, he said. Is in the ICU now. Her memory is going, and dad suffers with post-polio syndrome.
12/20/25:
Update today, hadn't heard anything for a couple days. She's much better, awake and talking, no speech impediments. Huge difference, he says, and she's moving out of the ICU and into a regular hospital room. Yay!
12/23/25
Another update. Discharged from hospital, placed on hospice. I assumed the hospice component was so she could be home for Christmas.
Today: Got an email from my dad...she passed last night.
I'm just numb. Not sure how to react. A small comfort is she didn't have to suffer the indignities of advanced Alzheimer's for 10+ years like her mom did. That was rough.
12/17/25
My dad just called, my mom was having fainting spells this morning, and she fell in their home and hit her head very very hard. Just had one cat scan done, there's a brain bleed, and it could go either way, he said. Is in the ICU now. Her memory is going, and dad suffers with post-polio syndrome.
12/20/25:
Update today, hadn't heard anything for a couple days. She's much better, awake and talking, no speech impediments. Huge difference, he says, and she's moving out of the ICU and into a regular hospital room. Yay!
12/23/25
Another update. Discharged from hospital, placed on hospice. I assumed the hospice component was so she could be home for Christmas.
Today: Got an email from my dad...she passed last night.
I'm just numb. Not sure how to react. A small comfort is she didn't have to suffer the indignities of advanced Alzheimer's for 10+ years like her mom did. That was rough.
Speaking of shock, that is probably why you haven't felt the full blunt of the grief yet. Give it time and when it comes, don't fight it. Let it out.
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks for the words of comfort and reassurance. <3
A close dragon-wolf friend of mine from England started experiencing persistent belly pains and other digestive problems a few years ago. He didn't trust doctors so he didn't go get it checked until the pain was too much for him.
He was diagnosed with colon cancer that had already spread to his liver, kidneys and parts of his brain. The most that could be done for him was send him to hospice where he could made comfortable and as pain free as possible until the end.
(HUG)
(*Hug*)