good question

Visit by the Silver Chain nurse.

Deb asks a question that I would have asked, if I'd thought of it. An excellent question:

The nurse will, Deb suggests, have seen people/ patients actually dying.

So, as the patient gets closer to inevitable death -- what are the signs?

The nurse says:

They, the patient, will spend more and more time sleeping. Not wanting, not able to do anything else.

For me, I'll take that as, staying in bed, no strength to move even to the toilet. or. Perhaps, needing help.

Loss of interest in what's going on.

Deb's mother -- for several weeks before she died -- was less than usual interested in the doings of her grandchildren. (I'll try to memorise the names of ours...)

Loss of interest in food and eating. Which can be a worry to the family, the nurse says.

I'm nowhere near that yet.

Nurse comments are reassuring (to me). I worry that I will fall asleep -- just feeling tired as usual -- and fail to wake up. I prefer the thought that my body/mind will recognise impending death and adapt its attitude to death.

Slow, easy, comfortable but with a bit of warning. (But I bet I'll still be scared :-)

brain fading, typing blind
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