[Myrddin]

Both of my parents smoked. Dad finally quit in 1967. Mom continued through 1969. Both consumed alcoholic beverages in the evenings and wine at dinner. Dad became a T1 diabetic as a consequence of his choices. Even though my mom stopped smoking and ceased drinking when my dad passed, she developed congestive heart failure, a-fib and lung cancer in both lungs. I'm convinced that the hospice people my sister engaged hastened my mom's death by feeding her lots of morphine. She had no pain that would have justified any use of morphine. It was a tool to drive her to the cemetery quickly.

Your family has certain borne a long series of medical problems. Being the "baby" of the family, you will be seeing most of the family pass. All of my parents generation have passed. I have a sister and cousin who are still alive from my generation. Another cousin passed from esophageal cancer. We were just months apart in age.

My Dachshund and Jack Russell pups woke me up at 7:20 this morning. My wife was already up, so I was "fair game" for a morning snuggle. It's not a bad way to wake up.

[mass55th]

"My wife was already up, so I was "fair game" for a morning snuggle. It's not a bad way to wake up."

LOL!!At my age, I'd rather snuggle with a pet than a human.

[mass55th]

Got so wrapped up in the puppies, that I forgot to comment on your Mom’s hospice care treatment. You mentioned they gave her morphine when she had no apparent pain. It reminded me of the death of King George V of Britain who died in 1936. It was discovered in 1986, that his doctor, Lord Dawson who died in 1945, likely hastened his death by injecting a ‘mixture of morphine and cocaine to the monarch who was on his deathbed.