[wdfifteen]

My mom was admitted to the hospital on Christmas eve. She had numerous “small” things going wrong. Blood infection, UT infection, blood chemistry was messed up. A kidney wasn’t working. Her blood chemistry is messed up because the cancers are growing aggressively now in several sites, putting pressure on the useful organs, trying to push them out, causing unimaginable pain. Her kidney isn’t working because one tumor has basically flattened it. So she has four IV bags hanging over her bed, pumping potassium, whole blood, iron sucrose, dilaudid, antibiotics, and who knows what else trying to make up for what the cancer won’t let her body do for itself. The only part of her the cancer hasn’t affected is her mind, but the drugs that make the pain bearable have taken that away. So this is how it will be - a daily battle, the doctors struggling to make up for what the cancer takes away and all the while we know who the winner will be.