The plan was that Mom was going to Zilber Hospice for five days so Teresa could get some time off. She has not had more than ten or twelve hours in a row off for only a few times. You can count on one hand the number of times she has had even a few hours off.
Today, nurse Judy said Mom has been slipping and it would not be wise to send Mom "on vacation." I sort of agree. Even though we have been reminding her of her up coming vacation, I think when she wakes up in a strange place, she will not be happy or know where she is.
It turns out Teresa really doesnt want the time off. So no one will get a vacation.
Teresa will get time off this Thursday for twelve hours. Barb and I will cover, maybe a person from hospice care for four hours.
Mom has a reoccuring dream about being left alone at St Mary's and she yells and yells for someone to come help her but no one is there. Then Joe Ramstack (an old friend of the family, dead thirty or more years but lives across the street from St Mary's) rescues her. Some times Teresa come for her. I can see her having this dream at the hospice and then a stranger comes to get her. She wouldn't be happy.
Nurse Judy thinks it will be just a short time before Mom passes. Yesterday she slept all day. Craig and Barb went in, yelled, touched her and she just slept. I had the same reaction an hour later, couldn't wake her. She eats less and less. She does get a can of
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