July 4

Wanda made pizzas and we took them up for dinner with Lor and Emily after they arrived. They had a pretty good trip in spite of the heat.
Yesterday we had a family meeting which included Mom, Lor, Wanda, Dr Boyd, Dave Scanlan (social worker), Lois Pierik (community liaison nurse), Liz Edwards (pharmacist) and Marie-Claude(one of Mom's nurses) as well as myself. It was discussed that Mom may have some time left and how would she like to spend it. Now that her pain and nausea are under control we start to work on the next obstacles and there is a never-ending list. There was discussion of making arrangements for Mom to come home which would include hospital-type equipment, home care nurses, home support workers, hospice volunteers. Mom is rather anxious about this so it may not happen. One other option is to have her placed in a long-term care facility so that she can have round-the-clock care. At the moment there is about a three-month wait for placement. Since no one can say exactly how much time she has, or how much of that time might require acute nursing(IV's, etc) this is certainly in the picture.
Mom has now the information to make some decisions.
Being Mom, before everyone got to her room for the meeting, she asked Wanda if perhaps we should be serving tea and coffee!
After the meeting, which lasted about an hour, Mom was totally exhausted.
Jane and Brent were kind enough to have us for dinner last evening. Wanda is only here for one more day.