Well, Mom and Dad are hanging in there, but it was another rough week. Mom is a trooper, and Dad’s pretty burly, too...it’s beyond hard to watch someone you love go through this.

With no help from the doctors except more morphine. Ugh.

However, it’s amazing how tough my Mom is when she wants to do something. All week long, she’s been home, in bed, basically lucky to get to walk a loop around the backyard. But yesterday, we had planned to have her good friends from church take a trip down here in the church van to see my house and have lunch.

I mean, the lady is frail right now and feeling pretty crappy.

So, of course, she did it anyway, and did great.

She didn’t go to lunch, but she got dressed up, rode in the car, and then napped in her room at my house while we had lunch, and then I made her some oatmeal and she went home. For her that was a huge deal, and she did it! Yay!

Today seems a bit better, too.

Even though we get looks from people, like maybe they think we’re insane, we will still have hope, no matter what. There are better things ahead for her and for us, I just know it. We can do this, even though it sucks right now.