My FIL died from complications of emphysema. I say it that way because well, emphysema itself doesn't actually kill you. I suppose we're fortunate that it was renal failure that was his way to go because it's the least painful manner to die if you're going to die from disease. It doesn't make it easy on the relatives though, as they gather around your bed after the hospital staff had previously shooed your family out of the room, injected you with enough morphine to lose all awareness, and then removed your breathing tube. And then your family gets to stand around you and watch you as you struggle to get air in your lungs, each attempt more labored than the last. and while YOU feel no pain, your family is definitely feeling it for you.
My mother's death was less dramatic, I suppose. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in June of 2006. She went through her chemo like a champ, not ever seeming to let it bother her all that much. "I'm a little tired," is what she'd say. Maybe she was honest. She worked all the way through the end of January of 2007, right up until she fell and broke her hip. That's when we learned that the cancer had gone to her brain and she was gone two weeks later, dying quietly in her sleep with only her night nurse for company. I didn't get to say goodbye to her.
So, yeah. Sorry to be a downer. Must be the time of year.
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Date: 2008-02-13 01:36 pm (UTC)My mother's death was less dramatic, I suppose. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in June of 2006. She went through her chemo like a champ, not ever seeming to let it bother her all that much. "I'm a little tired," is what she'd say. Maybe she was honest. She worked all the way through the end of January of 2007, right up until she fell and broke her hip. That's when we learned that the cancer had gone to her brain and she was gone two weeks later, dying quietly in her sleep with only her night nurse for company. I didn't get to say goodbye to her.
So, yeah. Sorry to be a downer. Must be the time of year.