New Options

One of yesterday's visitors was this moose that mom said was a familiar fixture in the neighborhood.  She probably spent a half hour in front of the window eating birch branch tips in the below zero environment.

Yesterday and last night were 90% in a state of dazed sleep for mom.  When awake she still communicates high levels of pain but she does seem to sleep fairly fitfully.   Her waking minutes are cogent for the most part.  Only once last night did she seem to be in a dream state and  tipped her power chair up and insisted on help to get up to get her to the bathroom (She hasn't been doing that for over a week).  Heather was finally able to convince her that it wasn't necessary and get her to recline and go back to sleep.

Alex and Kathy showed up in  the afternoon with a gourmet Peking Duck (from their own gaggle) complete with stuffing and salad and rolls and fudge.  After cooking we enjoyed it together over discussions that ranged from the super bowl to the historic precedence  for expecting converted shaman testimonies to be effective with unconverted shaman, to the latest technology for keeping animals in prescribed boundaries (otherwise known as fences).  We were also blessed  by others with enough cookies and sweets to keep us through the week.

Now, about the plan Hospice has put forward.  They plan today or tomorrow to put mom on liquid morpheme.  This evidently absorbs in the mouth so mom's tendency to nausea won't be an issue.  When mom heard this she immediately indicated she understood the implications.  She quipped, "Bye Bye."