Thank you, Goofy, for posting this.

FYI, my mother passed away yesterday afternoon. It was a week ago this past Sunday that she had gone into the hospital with a UTI and was extremely dehydrated. Her BP was seesawing during her hospital stay, so bad at one point, that she almost coded. They finally got it stabilized at 80/50.

Last Wednesday evening she was transferred to a Rehab Facility, to hopefully get her strength up enough so she could go back home.Just 2 days ago,on Sunday afternoon, she was doing better. Her vitals went back to normal, and a lot of her previous confusion was gone.

Monday afternoon my brother was on his way there to see her, when her heart quit, and she was gone.I got the call at home that she had minutes left, but I am an hour drive away from the Rehab Facility.My brother got there 10 minutes after she died, and I got there not too long afterwards.So no one from the family was there when she passed away.

Myself,my daughters, my husband, my nephew, and my brother, sat with her body for a while. When the funeral home came to pick up my mother's body,my middle daughter and my nephew helped the funeral home employee put their grandmother's body on the gurney.

My mother's birthday is this coming Sunday,January 27th. She would have been 96. We were hoping she would make it a while,at least just past her birthday, but it was not meant to be.

I am crying again, so I need to get off this computer for a while. I will check back on this thread later.