My mother, Flo Davis, continues to surprise everyone including her doctors, the hospice team and the family members, by continuing to fight for her life. This is the 11th day in CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth Hospital after we were told initially that she would not live 6-8 hours after suffering the massive stroke on Wednesday, August 13.
She has now lived 11 days without any food or one drop of water. She is only breathing and nothing else appears to be working correctly. The doctor said the stroke, caused by a large cancerous brain tumor that had been growing for quite some time, also caused a heart attack, 12-14 seizures and the complete shut-down of her body.
She is totally non-responsive and has been in hospice care since Monday. We can only wait and sit with her.
It is a very difficult situation because she was so full of life and has lived her 86 years well. She will be 87 on Tuesday, August 26 and was looking forward to a bang-up birthday celebration.
Thank you for your many calls, emails, text messages, cards and visits. One can only know how many friends he or she has at a time like this. It is very difficult for my mother's two sisters, back in Georgia, Aunt Anna and Aunt Minnie and for my brothers, John and J, L. and my sister, Paula, who are also in the Atlanta area.
Please keep on praying for each of us at this very difficult time in our lives. She is getting excellent care and was homesick for heaven since my dad died some six years ago now.
Until the next page turns,
Brenda
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