I am truly sorry for you and and your family. One of my good friends is a hospice nurse supervisor for the VNA. She is truly kind, wonderful, and caring. I am sure that your sister is receiving excellent care if all of the nurses are like her. That is a strong likelihood as the hospice agencies strive for excellence.
You and yours are in my thoughts,
Greta
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ken barber<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:40 PM
  Subject: a report on my sister


     well, i went to see betty, my younger sister, this
  past weekend. in the 1 month since i had seen her,
  she had went down drastically. she did not get out
  of bed at all while we visited.
      tonight i talked to my older sister ,trisha. she
  said betty went to her doctor and the doctor told
  her that the chemo was not slowing the cancer at all
  and that she was discontining giving it to her. she
  will set up hospice care for betty. she wrote more
  stronger meds for pain.
     trisha said probably april or may at the latest
  would probably be it.  it is hard seeing her in so
  much pain.


  __________________________________________________
  Do You Yahoo!?
  Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
  http://mail.yahoo.com<http://mail.yahoo.com/>