Palliative care. Hospice care. I know they're similar, though not necessarily the same, but still.
Nobody wants to hear that.
We all know what this means. Someone's on the brink of death. Their time on Earth is coming to an end. Medical care and related treatment are not necessarily options. All we can do is make someone's final days alive as comfortable as possible, as they effectively transition from this realm to the next.
Yesterday, Morie's mother suffered her second stroke in less than three weeks. Things aren't looking good, from what I'm understanding of the situation. Morie and her family met with a palliative care team earlier this morning. Since I'm not really a part of whatever close-knit circle that Morie surrounds herself with, I don't know what came of that meeting. I'm not a part of that loop. I don't know how Morie has taken the entire situation. She and her mother have historically had a strained relationship, dating back to when Morie was a child, so if I'm guessing, Morie is likely conflicted more than anything else. I have to think that she cares, even on a minimal level. I highly doubt that she is hoping that her mother dies soon. Morie isn't that type of person. Whatever she is experiencing, it has to be a challenge for her.
Mom didn't have to worry about palliative or hospice care. She died too quickly for all of that to have been a consideration. Two days before she died, she was slated to start dialysis. I guess doctors thought that her kidneys were starting to fail. As it turns out and unbeknownst to her, Mom had multiple organs failing on her at the same time, so dialysis probably wasn't going to do anything for her anyway. There was nothing that we could do to get Mom back to some state of normalcy. The sepsis and multiple organ failure proved to be too much for her to overcome.
As for Morie's mother, I don't know her health history. I don't even know how that second stroke may have taken its toll on her. Morie didn't sound very optimistic this morning, but you can only gather so much information from a text message. It just didn't sound good.
Morie and I are three months apart in age (she's older). I already lost my mother.
Only time will tell if Morie is about to lose hers.
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