My beautiful mummy passed away yesterday afternoon at 5.50pm. This has all happened so quickly...she was admitted to hospital last week as her heart rate was very high just before they did chemo so they cancelled the chemo and took her round to A&E. We found out about 3 days ago that she had pneumonia and they had put a DNR in place as she would be physically too weak to cope with resuscitation which was quite a shock as none of us had any idea it was that bad. The next day the doctor asked to speak to me and told me that we were looking at days. My cousin went to the hospital yesterday and called me at 3.00pm and said they're upping her pain meds and they've said you need to come now. I got there at 4 and she left us at 5.50pm. She knew I was there but she wasn't coherant and couldn't talk to me. I feel so lost and numb.
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