Not real close, but they are relatives. The neighbor who died was, I
suppose, my uncle-in-law. That is, he was the husband of my aunt. That
night she called me to tell me that he was breathing very hard and there
was a rattling in his chest. He had been suffering from dementia for a
while that started when he had a stroke. It had gotten so bad that he
had gotten very hard to understand at all. Then a couple of days before
he died he had stopped talking at all and when he was touched he
screamed. That was when hospice was called. It was assumed that the
screaming was due to pain and that he had had another stroke. It was so
close to the end that the only thing the hospice people managed to do
was to give him a shot of morphine. When I got the call the nurse was on
the way and I was wondering why I was being called. After all, I
couldn't do anything about it. Then I said that if there were any
further developments to call me again. That made me wonder why I said
that. After all, there wasn't anything I could do about it. At about
2:30 in the morning I was awakened by the next call and was told that he
had died between 1:00 and 1:30 and that the funeral home people had just
picked him up.
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J.K. Rowling
“ I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing
in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! ”
― J.K. Rowling
On 11/30/2018 9:58 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Do you have close relationships with your neighbors?
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Turmoil
I don't suppose this relates much to anything we have been talking about and
it is unlikely that any of you care, but there is some turmoil going on here.
My next door neighbor has been suffering from dementia and lack of mobility for
some time now and he seems to have just taken a turn for the worse, a severe
turn for the worse. Hospice was contacted about him just a couple of days ago
and they did send someone out with a morphine shot today. But just now his wife
called his nurse and the nurse is on the way out here, but she said over the
phone that this is probably the end.