Post by celawson on Feb 8, 2018 14:47:19 GMT -5
Thank you for sending good thoughts about my aunt, Cassandra. Unfortunately, she passed 1 week after I took her to the hospital, all the while confounding the doctors with what was going on, and being subjected to more and more invasive tests to figure out what was happening while she worsened each day. This culminated in a bone marrow biopsy. It was terrible. Then I got a call at 4:30 in the morning that she was coding. I am her medical DPOA. At that point it was so hard to tell the doc if they should keep trying, because we still didn't know what the illness was, yet I know what a code blue is like on an 82 year old. But she was independent and active and living in her own home, driving and going on trips etc. until several days before admission. So man, they resuscitated her twice, but she passed a few minutes after that.
She was my favorite aunt and one of those bright lights who was always there for anyone in need, and had the most infectious laugh and energy. She could make you feel like the most important person in the world, she was so interested and happy for people. She never married or had kids, so she really embraced being an aunt. She took all her nieces and nephews to San Francisco when they turned 13. It was my first plane ride and such a great trip. She was a wonderful lady.
Several hours after she died, I received a call that the preliminary results of her bone marrow biopsy showed a highly aggressive lymphoma that would really not have been treatable at her age and co-morbidities. I am so grateful she never had to be told "You have Stage 4 cancer. We can't treat it." So yes, trying to find the silver lining. But still selfishly feeling like she should have been around a little longer. And of course regretting not spending more time with her just one on one.
So yeah, I'm not really feeling like getting into Trump arguments on this board right now. And that's too bad, because we've got a few new members, I see. That's great. Have fun. Life's too short to stress too much about politics.
She was my favorite aunt and one of those bright lights who was always there for anyone in need, and had the most infectious laugh and energy. She could make you feel like the most important person in the world, she was so interested and happy for people. She never married or had kids, so she really embraced being an aunt. She took all her nieces and nephews to San Francisco when they turned 13. It was my first plane ride and such a great trip. She was a wonderful lady.
Several hours after she died, I received a call that the preliminary results of her bone marrow biopsy showed a highly aggressive lymphoma that would really not have been treatable at her age and co-morbidities. I am so grateful she never had to be told "You have Stage 4 cancer. We can't treat it." So yes, trying to find the silver lining. But still selfishly feeling like she should have been around a little longer. And of course regretting not spending more time with her just one on one.
So yeah, I'm not really feeling like getting into Trump arguments on this board right now. And that's too bad, because we've got a few new members, I see. That's great. Have fun. Life's too short to stress too much about politics.