I ask for prayers for my mom.  Seven years ago  she was diagnosed with cancer. She had a tumor on her right vocal chord.  Her throat began to have some swelling so she ended up with a trach. Then she had surgery to remove the tumor and toughed it out through 7 weeks of radiation, 5 days a week, twice a day to her neck.  They treated from one side of the spine to the other.   Well, that radiation damaged blood vessels and tissue in her neck.   Because of this damage, she spontaneously bleeds from her throat out of her trach.  She had a massive bleed Feb 2007, while in the hospital, which she almost died from.  She had 4 units of blood replaced.  She made it through that after a stay in ICU.  She even made it through smoking cessation after 40 yrs of lighting up! 

Well,  Aug. 12th she had another bleed. Not quite as big, but big enough. She was home by herself.  She managed to call 911 and get help.  While in the hospital she had stress Cardiomyopothy.  She now has a 25% ejection fraction rate.  Her oxygen level is 88%. If that wasn’t bad enough, she has MRSA in her nose (most people do, but it’s not good for her weak immune system), pneumonia, a staph infection in her lungs, COPD,  heart failure and now malnutrition and dehydration. 

She can’t eat and has had very little to drink.  The liquid she is drinking  goes into her airway most of the time.  She is refusing a feeding tube (she’s had one twice and removed them both times.)  She can not sustain this much longer.  From what I’ve found online, it looks like she may have about 48 to MAYBE 72 hrs.  She looked terrible tonight and it breaks my heart. 

Friday night my sister-in-law called EMS because she was just standing in one place and wouldn’t acknowledge her or the neighbor whe she got her to help.  After she finally got her sitting, she refused help from EMS and they left.  Meanwhile, she was VERY aggitated. So much that she tried to throw stuff at us from her cabinet.  After about 2 hrs we got her calmed down. 

We’ve not been as close as we used to be, but I still love her. I’ve always  been there for her as much as I could regardless of what she said or did.   I pray that her death is a peaceful one that that she finds peace with God.