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We picked up her mother that same day and brought her back to Plymouth, but after a rough night, we brought her to the hospital yesterday. Lot's out of wack chemically and then they found a tumor in her throat, which is sadly ironic in that her sister is dying from esophageal cancer. Peg's mom never smoked or drank. Looks like a couple days of evaluation and then some hard decisions.
I watched my mother die from two different cancers and my father from Alzheimer's; then his brother from the same thing. My father's wasn't as devastating a case as his brothers, as he picked it up late after already dealing with a quad bypass. I watched my Aunt for 5 years talk to her husband who had to be craned out of bed, fed like an infant, while he rarely opened his eyes and he was never able to say a word. Peg has already promised me, that if I go the same route it's off to VT to change residences, so I can go with some semblance of dignity.
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