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Trish said:
You know what, I agree with Bonnie and I hope she gets that extra time 🤞 Great that Bonnie has agreed to stay with you, being surrounded by family is exactly what she needs at this time. x
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This cancer has obviously been growing inside her for quite a while, so, about the side effects, she said: "I've been feeling so shiddy for so long, it doesn't even matter."
 
Murrmurr said:
Bonnie's going to come stay with us for several days or so, while she's getting radiation therapy. They aren't keeping her in hospital for that this time (probly her ins. won't cover it), so she drives to and from. But she lives in a 3rd-floor apt and has trouble getting up and down the stairs every time she has to go for treatment.

So I talked her into coming here...no stairs, plus she can sit out back and have maté with me, and watch the squirrels and cats if she wants. To relax.
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Maybe not. She was scheduled for discharge yesterday, and then her friend was gonna take her to her apt to pack some clothes and stuff, but doctor said they can't discharge her. She's too weak. 😳
 
Bonnie opted to stop all treatment and get Hospice Care. She wants hospice care here at my home. Her hospice worker said they'll deliver a hospital bed, porta-potty, an oxygen tank, and a wheelchair tomorrow morning.

We're gonna set her up in the family room by the big sliding glass door. She'll be able to see the whole yard from there, and watch the squirrels and cats and birds.

They said her life expectancy at this point is a week to 10 days.
 
Teacher Terry said:
Your sister is lucky to have such a loving family. May she have a peaceful ending. I’m really sorry for all of you.
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When I think of the millions who don't have a loving family, or at least support from social services or whatever, I feel sad for all of them.

Bonnie has been a pain in the keister for almost forever, but family is family. My Dad taught me, we take care of our own. He had a baby sister, too, and she had problems...he was always there for her.
 
You, Michelle and the family will, I am sure, make Bonnie's remaining time as peaceful and comfortable as possible.

Everyone needs a big brother or sister who will hold their hand when times get tough. You have certainly been the best big brother and I wish you all strength and love as you navigate the coming days. x
 
Does anyone remember a very sweet lady from Australia, I forgot her name, but I think, not sure, had word Gran or Granny? don't wish to confuse anyone with that, I'm sure I'm wrong, I searched GrannyG which is what I seem to remember?

Anyway, she had this condition my dad & Bonnie have. Her doctors did not recomment any treatment. After awhile, she went into hospice...........after her passing her son wrote to us to let us know. Lovely person she was.

My dad had no pain at this stage, he did suffer some mentally, but not physically. Hopefully, medications were left with Frank for Bonnie if she does have pain. These meds prescribed for my dad but he did not require them. I must have stolen them after he passed. I don't remember, but that sounds like something I would have done.

❤️❤️(((Bonnie)))❤️❤️
 
Pepper said:
Does anyone remember a very sweet lady from Australia, I forgot her name, but I think, not sure, had word Gran or Granny? don't wish to confuse anyone with that, I'm sure I'm wrong, I searched GrannyG which is what I seem to remember?

Anyway, she had this condition my dad & Bonnie have. Her doctors did not recomment any treatment. After awhile, she went into hospice...........after her passing her son wrote to us to let us know. Lovely person she was.

My dad had no pain at this stage, he did suffer some mentally, but not physically. Hopefully, medications were left with Frank for Bonnie if she does have pain. These meds prescribed for my dad but he did not require them. I must have stolen them after he passed. I don't remember, but that sounds like something I would have done.

❤️❤️(((Bonnie)))❤️❤️
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Her ex, current, ex, current boyfriend (🤪) stopped by last night...said he just needed to talk. Bonnie's not always easy to love, but Dan does love her very much, and he's pretty messed up over all this. He's been at the hospital everyday since this admission, and he said she's been extremely angry and demanding and irrational.

I told him that's probably because of the brain tumors. The biggest one is in her parietal lobe, which is responsible for understanding where you are in relation to the things around you. I told him to imagine the frustration of not being completely sure where your legs are or able to process exactly where the very bed you're laying on is, and so forth.

I hope we can keep her calm. We'll probly just have to keep reassuring her everything is ok and that we're here, taking care of things. We'll be getting some help from the home hospice nurse. And I set up a nice, tranquil spot in the family room for her. And I went and bought her a pretty purple blanket and a glitzy little purple lamp.

Purple is her favorite color (and glitzy is her favorite thing).

Dan said she might be here today instead of tomorrow. She'll be released as soon as they land on just the right level of pain medication for her. The other thing the parietal lobe does is sense pain, or even understand that it's your pain and not someone else's.

Anyway, Dan said he's really glad she'll be staying here. "She talks about you all the time," he said...and he meant all the while he's known her, not just lately. So, yeah, I think she'll be happy here....as happy as she can be.

Hopefully, medications were left with Frank for Bonnie if she does have pain.
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Since Meesh is taking a nursing course, and I completed nursing school and held a license for several years, I think they'll trust us with Bonnie's meds. I hope so.


Just got a text that her oxygen is en-route for delivery.
 
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I don't remember who you're talking about, Pepper... not by the name Granny anyway...

There's been a few people who've died who were once friends here with us ... one of the most stoic and tragic for me.. was a lady who posted mainly on the other forum.. who'd got Breast cancer... she was a God fearing woman, who absolutely lived her life by the word of the lord.. had a husband who was an alcoholic and who had given her a bit of a bad life yet she forgave him, and continued to live with him.. then she got the Breast Cancer.. and she handed it over to ''her maker''. refused all intervention from conventional medicine, felt absolutely positive her God would save her.. and if he didn't then that would mean he needed her to''go home''... well of course the inevitable happened and she died.

Such a shame.. she left children , grandchildren, and siblings.. but she would not be swayed from her faith.. even when we begged her...
 
I know who you mean @hollydolly. She was an excellent person.
For some reason, name GrannyJo is in my mind as well as GrannyG but probably her name sounded nothing like it. Australia I'm sure of, as well as small cell lung cancer, doctors unwilling to treat, and finally, hospice, then her son writing us, a son she was estranged from until her illness. Doesn't matter.
 
Murr, I hope that being with you calms and comforts Bonnie. I'm sure you are waiting impatiently for her. I bet she will love the purple blanket and glitzy purple lamp you got for her :love:
 

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