Goodbye Grandma

As I mentioned earlier in March, Mom and Dad had moved on to Florida to help Grandma, as she had been having increasingly severe health problems since the fall. My dad had already made several trips there over the winter, and at the beginning of march, they decided to go and stay with Grandma to help her recover and make the inevitable adjustment to life in a nursing home.

Grandma's recovery was brought to an abrupt hault on Sunday, March 22, when she was taken to the hospital for X-rays and CT scans because her condition was declining rapidly. The diagnosis: aggressive pancreatic cancer which had spread to her lungs and possibly her gall bladder. Grandma was immediately moved to hospice care and kept comfortable with morphine as necessary. Dad and Mom were able to spend time with her during her last days and say their "goodbyes" and "I love yous".

She passed away at 9:25pm on Wednesday, March 25.

Goodbye grandma. You'll be missed.