Irony: ammo says it's time. Tom is blocked.
She kept our family intact through some very rough times. I don't know if we would have made it without her.
Although she had been failing lately, the real immediate, "this is it" decline only lasted two days. For the last two weeks I've been sleeping downstairs on the couch to be next to her, since she was finding it harder and harder to make it all night without peeing, and was just freaking out and having separation anxiety. But it wasn't until Friday that she basically collapsed. Saturday she could only stand when I took all her weight. I'll spare you the final details, but she was essentially gone by this time yesterday, although she continued breathing all night.
Not looking forward to telling my daughters (off at colleges). Buy my books, dammit![ Parent ]
