Winter is coming to a close-March 8 2013



 A Happy Day With Mom

 The snow is melting, the birds are busy and singing and it's quite warm today. Spring is in the air. The past few weeks have been busy. Mom's health has not improved. They have done most of what can be done for her in the hospital so tomorrow she will be discharged and we'll see what happens. She has decided to go into long term care and she wants to go to Fairview Lodge in Whitby. She volunteered there for decades as a younger woman and always said she wanted there eventually. Her skin is so easily bruised and thin. Her ankles are so swollen and her breathing so laboured. They have found some spots in her lungs that are labelled as a "possible malignancy" and she has so many fractures in her back from osteoporosis I do not know how she is standing up. My goal at this point is to provide comfort, have quality of life remaining and help her find some sense of completion and closure so she can be at peace.