My brother called me this afternoon to let me know that the outlook for grandma wasn’t getting better. She has been heavily sleeping, barely eating and was under comfort care.
Comfort care is defined as a patient care plan that is focused on symptom control, pain relief, and quality of life. It is typically administered to patients who have already been hospitalized several times, with further medical treatment unlikely to change matters. Comfort care takes the form of hospice care and palliative care.
They don’t think she will ever be able to walk again after her surgery, and that hospice is the next step. She won’t be able to go home, the home that she so loved.
I can’t imagine the farm without her. I can’t imagine my life without her. I’ve been incredibly blessed to have had the opportunity for her great-grandchildren know and love her. It doesn’t make it easier thought. Grief is grief and sadness is sadness.