Hola,
Thank you for tagging me. Unfortunately and sadly, I no longer have my chooks… I rehomed them last summer. My very healthy 75 yo mum was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last summer, and the prognosis was grim.
It was also accurate.
She entered the hospital with a belly ache (literally) and was discharged 2 weeks later with a stage four, 90-180 days-to-live diagnosis.
After that wallop, and being I was my moms main caretaker, I mustered the girls and gave them to a lovely young couple with two young children.
It was a good & necessary choice.
We got mom into City of Hope and their assessment was not much better. But, they did have a treatment that *might* be able to extend her comfort and life but we were still at a very ugly 3-18 months, if the chemo worked…
It did not work. Mum went down hill extremely fast. She decided to enter hospice just before Thanksgiving. She died here at my home on 12/3, 92 days after her diagnosis.
I’m in the process of cleaning out her home in anticipation of putting it up for sale later this year, and also deciding if I should do the same with my home. We lived 5 houses apart… and there’s really no reason for me to stay in this area with mom and grandma (2022 @ 99.5years old) now gone. Mom and I had just finished clearing and selling my grandmothers house just before the diagnosis.
It’s been a rather terrible 2 years.
Most of what is left of my family lives in Hawaii (Big Island)… I’ve been scoping out land and thinking I may like living on a volcano.
I’ll be back, eventually. Especially if I decide to go Hawaiian. The south end of the big island has a large and growing homestead small agricultural community.
I hope everyone else is doing well. Please go hug your people.
and all the best,
Kali
