What a great Christmas present for your Mom and your family - the gift of being together. I am also one of 5 siblings in a delightfully dysfunctional family and I suspect there's lots of stories we could all share. We usually get 4 of us but then there's that other one...
I'll bet she loved outliving the "death pack" in the fridge - way to go! She's got spirit your Mom. It also shows the hospice staff is paying attention to the small details so that's a good thing. As her condition changes, there are people that are monitoring her and that increases the likelihood that things will get dealt with as they develop. Take it one day at a time and enjoy those good ones.
Happy New Year, Regards JoAnne
JoAnne - Caregiver to husband, cancer rt. tonsil, mets to soft palate, BOT, 7 lymph nodes - T3N2BM0, stage 4. Robotic assisted surgery, radical neck dissection 2/06; 30 IMTX treatments and 4 cycles of cisplatin completed June 06.
