User blog:Gideoncrawle/My MIL passed away

My mother-in-law passed away this afternoon at about 4 p.m., MDT, after 7 weeks in the hospice. She was 83 years old.

My wife was at the hospice most of the day, and she tells me that it was relatively sudden. Her mother had been complaining of feeling ill the last couple of days, and grew increasingly nauseated as the morning went on. She lay down on her side and, when hospice personnel later turned her over (so blood flow to her arm wouldn’t be restricted), she was found to be unresponsive. She passed away a few hours later.

The cause of death can’t be determined without an autopsy (which we’re not having done, because there is no other reason for it), but is believed to have been a stroke.

Still, we are counting our blessings. My MIL had 6 weeks of "borrowed time", mostly with a passably decent quality of life.

How this affects all of you is that, for the near future, I may be significantly less active here on the wiki. (Even without all this, I will never again, God willing, have a need to post 101 edits in a single day, like I did yesterday.) How much less active I will be, and for how long, depends on (a) my wife’s emotional needs, and (b) how much of my time will be needed to help deal with her mother’s estate. In any case, I won’t be disappearing completely; and my User settings include e-mail alerts when my Talk page is changed, so I will know if someone tries to contact me.

I will continue to post TDI-G&S episode chapters as scheduled because, unlike the verse sections, the episode sections require very little reformatting for the wiki.