A Nice Old-Fashioned Dying at Home.(a daughter chronicles her mother's last days)
From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
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Date: 8/1/2001
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Author: Broughton, Diane
Genie's barking at the bathroom door got me out of the shower in a hurry. Border collis know when there's trouble. Mom was downstairs, lying in bed and calling for me frantically, "Open a door, I need air...I'm so dizzy...I can't breathe." Mom struggled to right herself through the first vertigo of her life, "What direction am I lying in? Where should I try to go to keep from falling off?" It was either aftershocks of her small stroke 4 months earlier or the approaching roar of the ...
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