For anyone reading this blog who has not read updates on our canberracollins blogspot, our dearest Mum has died. She went to be with the Lord on Tuesday 8th of April, 2008 - exactly 10 months after Dad.
The last months were up and down with new health problems and interventions to correct them, with some success. Overall, Mum’s respiratory function (cancer in both lungs and liver) continued to decline. In the last weeks, a huge clot developed on the right, somewhere in the vein below her heart and continued down her leg, cutting off the blood flow. The last two weeks she endured advancing tissue death (gangrene) and yet she was still so focussed on the people around her.
Mum had been ‘ready’ for at least 6 weeks, living each day so fully and with such peace. She had dealt with all her issues and was ‘free’. She stayed in that lovely way, despite her physical condition creating hell for her body. How she could be so interested in other people I don’t know, but she chose to be switched on, remain herself and somehow bear the impossible.
The medication in the last 2 weeks relieved her feeling of being short of breath, so she became insensitive to increasing respiratory difficulty. She was so glad that her breathing distress had gone, because the thought of ‘smothering’ as her lungs got worse was frightening. So the deterioration in lung function was fairly well tolerated.
She was prescribed increasing pain relief, but was reluctant to be ‘bombed out’ or become reduced in her thoughts or ability to communicate. So, she was fully still on the ball, (bit slurry speech) loving and gracious, when she finally went to sleep on the Monday night and then gently slipped away from us on Tuesday morning around 1045am. At home, surrounded by her family.
Her funeral was held on Monday 14th April, and I have put most of the messages up on our blogsite. Thank you for checking in here, Mum surely sent her love to everyone.
I think I will not use this blog anymore, so please look us up by clicking on the top link and saving it to your favourites.
Click here http://www.canberracollins.blogspot.com/
The last months were up and down with new health problems and interventions to correct them, with some success. Overall, Mum’s respiratory function (cancer in both lungs and liver) continued to decline. In the last weeks, a huge clot developed on the right, somewhere in the vein below her heart and continued down her leg, cutting off the blood flow. The last two weeks she endured advancing tissue death (gangrene) and yet she was still so focussed on the people around her.
Mum had been ‘ready’ for at least 6 weeks, living each day so fully and with such peace. She had dealt with all her issues and was ‘free’. She stayed in that lovely way, despite her physical condition creating hell for her body. How she could be so interested in other people I don’t know, but she chose to be switched on, remain herself and somehow bear the impossible.
The medication in the last 2 weeks relieved her feeling of being short of breath, so she became insensitive to increasing respiratory difficulty. She was so glad that her breathing distress had gone, because the thought of ‘smothering’ as her lungs got worse was frightening. So the deterioration in lung function was fairly well tolerated.
She was prescribed increasing pain relief, but was reluctant to be ‘bombed out’ or become reduced in her thoughts or ability to communicate. So, she was fully still on the ball, (bit slurry speech) loving and gracious, when she finally went to sleep on the Monday night and then gently slipped away from us on Tuesday morning around 1045am. At home, surrounded by her family.
Her funeral was held on Monday 14th April, and I have put most of the messages up on our blogsite. Thank you for checking in here, Mum surely sent her love to everyone.
I think I will not use this blog anymore, so please look us up by clicking on the top link and saving it to your favourites.
Click here http://www.canberracollins.blogspot.com/
