Originally Posted by 26987

She is 85. The difficult part about the whole thing is that she is very healthy in most senses. She has a strong heart, no high blood pressure, no real health problems in that sense... but a couple of years ago she developed uterine cancer and never went down to do anything about it. All they had to do was the hysterectomy and it would have been done. She likely could've had a few more years, at least. BUT because she didn't do anything about it, it spread to her lungs and bones as well. She declined from doing okay to doing REALLY bad overnight it almost seemed. One day she was considering radiation and the next she was bedridden and not eating. Now for the last month she has been on a morphine patch which pretty much keeps her out of pain, but leaves her pretty lethargic. She hasn't eaten in 5 weeks, just liquids, so it has weakened her a lot. It's basically only a matter of time at this point. BUT- as I stated before... she feels ready- she said that before it got really bad, so yes... there is a peace about it.

Thanks for asking!