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eShirl

(18,490 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:07 PM Feb 2017

Thank you for my heart, O secret admirer!

It comes to me on a day when my mother is about to pass on here at home, under Hospice auspices and the gentle grace of a morphine pump. Her children here to help her, committed to having at least one of us sitting with her at all times. We're in the middle of a Nor' Easter, but we should be fine even if we lose power. (morphine pump is battery anyway; wood stove in the kitchen for backup heat and cooking if the power goes out)

My turn for a nap, just winding down first... and finding my DU heart made me smile. Thanks!

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Thank you for my heart, O secret admirer! (Original Post) eShirl Feb 2017 OP
Peace to you during this MontanaMama Feb 2017 #1
Thank you (and thanks to the other heartgivers) eShirl Feb 2017 #2

MontanaMama

(23,313 posts)
1. Peace to you during this
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:12 PM
Feb 2017

Difficult time. I've been in the place where you are. Bless you for giving your mom the gift of passing at home. Another heart to you while the storm passes.


eShirl

(18,490 posts)
2. Thank you (and thanks to the other heartgivers)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:35 PM
Feb 2017

I don't think it will be very long; my own feeling is a day or two at most.
Then we will rest.

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