Gerri,

I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. Oral cancer and its treatments are brutal. I just lost my 84 year old mother to Alzheimer�s disease (dementia), which is even worse that OC in many ways. She suffered from dementia for a few years and really went downhill really quick this year. She also lost her ability to swallow as part of her decline and at that point we honored her final wishes and got hospice involved. If you haven�t done so already, I would highly recommend contacting a local hospice organization. It was very painful to watch someone die like that, but in my mother�s case she had no quality of life and as many have put it �it was a blessing�. Hospice can help her and you get through this part of her life and will try to keep her as comfortable as possible. My mother did die peacefully in her sleep and was not in any pain.

I wish you the best.