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[quote=Anonymous]Sending good thoughts and wishes out to you, OP.

I have a very dear friend in her 80's who I have worked weekly in a volunteer organization. For over 2.years.  she has been having health problems for a while that the doctors said they could not pin down.  They looked at their test results and did not address the sharp visceral pains she was complaining about.  Finally this summer they told her she had liver cancer (they had been concentrating on kidney problems for over a year) and put her on an aggressive chemo regimen.  She deteriorated rapidly and in September they told her she was in end stage liver failure aas the cancer had consumed a significant part of her liver and was given days/weeks to live.  The hospital could only administer her the chemo and could not administer morphine for the pain, so she opted to go home for in-home hospice care where she could get morphine administered for the pain.  She went home and spent two weeks getting many visitors to say her goodbyes and completely stopped her chemo and was only taking doses of morphine as needed for the pain.  She was not expected to see Halloween.  But after about 5 weeks her physical health picked up from being off of the chemo.  In mid-November she came back to our weekly event (as a participant, not a volunteer) and has made st several weeks.  She recently made unexpected Christmas plans to visit her son and grandkids out of town and her hospice care has made arrangements with a hospice care group near the sons house to attend to her needs.  We all know she can go at any time, but we are so grateful to have the extra days and weeks with her.

I hope that you have more time than you expect with your sister.       [/quote]

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