I stilll have her last message to me on my answering machine, and she is calling from Samaritan where she has gone that day for whatever condition was bothering her the most at the time. She calmly states that they have given her the option of staying overnight and she says she thinks she'll take them up on it.
Early the next morning, everything changed. M. got a call from J. saying John was enroute. Soon after, on that day, the dog was put down. B. was home, but arrangements were being made.And so the story goes.
I know I'll never know what happened at the end, other than that she passed away alone, with her newly appointed "caretaker's" phone being turned off and the death notice coming to me.
Whatever triggered J's emergency visit I can only speculate. But I suspect it originated at her house shortly before her yet another desire to seek medical attention. I was there in her house and also present was her then-helper. I advised B. to focus on her most concerning health complaint. I had been with her at her request on several of her doctors' visits, and she generalized all of her symptoms, even saying maybe it was her nerves, or stress, offering her own suggestions to the doctor. I told her she should focus on her major issue. Good advice in her case, I'd still contend. But her "helper", maybe not wanting to be outdone, offered her strong opinion. She told her to tell them she wouldn't leave the hospital until they told her what was wrong with her. So I'm left to draw my own opinion as to which path B. chose. And why the emergency call to J. B. said she didn't remember who called him.
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