Hospice Care

Dear Friends and Family,

These words aren’t easy to write, and won’t be easy to read either.

Monday evening, Liz was taken to the ER due to feeling unable to catch her breath. A few hours with an oxygen mask helped her get her full breath and the doctors went to work trying to find out what was causing this.

They discovered an aggressive infection and began treating it.

While in the hospital, they performed a CT scan and confirmed that the cancer has not responded to the immunotherapy treatment and has spread.

Liz has elected to cease treatment and begin Comfort Care with home hospice. She will not be receiving antibiotics or nightly nutrition. She will be given wonderful pain killers and lots of care.  We are estimating that Liz will be with us for less than two weeks.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to see her. I apologize to those who were hoping to come out this weekend but she doesn’t have much energy and would like to focus on being around her immediate family and friends at this time.

Liz is at peace with her decision to cease treatment and she hopes that we can all find that peace as well.