Shannon's GUESTBOOK

Your recent article about watching your parent's slide toward the inevitable is mutually felt. My mother-in-law has been in a nursing home environment for the past couple of years, from breaking a hip (from which she recovered), being moved to a memory care facility and falling in her room (which was not carpeted) hitting the back of her head (spent a week in the hospital). It is heartbreaking to see our loved ones die while still breathing. She has been transferred back to her original life care facility that she bought a membership, and there is where she'll stay until the end. Her ability to speak is impaired. She'll answer a yes or no question, but anything further, requiring a multiple word response, ends in her babbling.

GaelicQueen