Thank you all for you kind thoughts. Please know they have helped me during this tough time.
Originally Posted by
windysan 
Sorry Alera. I have an uncle in hospice now too. Brain cancer. Tough to watch.
So sorry to hear this Windy. My thoughts are with you, him and the rest of your family.
I have a great aunt in hospice right now. She has been Hospice Stage 3 for almost a year. When she entered her doctor said her case was so advanced he had already written up her death certificate. Now after several times of doing this, he has stopped writing them. Sadly, she is still weak and terminal. Any day she could die. However, at over one hundred years of age, she is happy to get up to read her newspaper before going down and resting for the rest of the day. Some days I think it will take a newspaper strike before she will be ready to pass on. ;-)