[Kimberly27]

I hate that I have been MIA for so long! I miss scrapping a lot! Working full time and traveling have kept us busy as well as my mom. My mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December 2021. After surgery and many rounds of chemo she was told it was not working. We got the news in November she would be put on hospice. We visiting Thanksgiving weekend. She was still doing really well. She lives alone so my sister, dad and mom's best friends took turns staying with her. She was still going upstairs to bed and moving around ok. She was still doing ok but had been put into a hospital bed after we left on Thanksgiving. I got a call on Dec 12 from my sister that Mom wanted to do Christmas with us that weekend. She didn't think she would make it. So we dropped everything and flew to VA on Dec 14. We had Christmas with her on the 15th. She quickly declined after our Christmas with her. She was talking to us a little and interacting some but quickly went to sleeping all the time. As we upped the morphine she slept a lot more. I spent the night with her on New Years Day. At 4am the next morning (I was getting up every hour to give her morphine so no sleep) I noticed her breathing was slower and more rattle. I called the nurse on call and she told me she was on the way but call someone to stay with me. I called hubby and told him to get over there and waited for the nurse. She checked her out and told me everything was normal and her regular nurse would be coming in a couple of hours. Her Blood pressure had dropped as well as her breaths per minute. Once the nurse and my dad had been informed that we had hours not days left I called my siblings to come up as well as her two best friends. We all spent the day with her, talking to her. I left about 5pm to get a shower and dinner and maybe some sleep since nothing had changed. We were finishing up dinner when I got the call she was gone. I went back over to the house to sit with my dad and sister while we waited for the nurse and funeral home. My heart is shattered but I know she is no longer in pain. I don't know how to operate without her yet but I know it will get easier. Funeral is tomorrow (Tuesday Jan 07) then we head back home on the 9th.
I hope to get back to scrapping and document the memories we made with her. <3 She was an amazing woman who touched a lot of lives.