Goodbye Jean

Salinas Valley - from a moving car.
I will forever think of the Salinas Valley when I think about Jean who has shared the same dialysis days, MWF, as Stacy has for the last 5 years. Jean made a decision last week to stop treatment because she's too ill and has been going downhill fast for the last few months. Jean wanted one more Christmas with her family and to be able to say goodbye to friends and family. Mom took Stacy to the clinic on Monday and Jean told Mom about her plans and Mom and I shed some tears when I got back from a drive to Salinas. Today, Wed., Jean wasn't at the clinic so it appears that her husband is honoring her wishes. I'm positive that it wasn't an easy decision but once she discovered last week that she now has bladder cancer she decided not to pursue any further treatment. The quality of her life hasn't been good and that is what her husband finally understood and shared with me last week.

We're watching another courageous woman try to stay alive for her daughter who is 14. Chaylce wants desperately to see her precious daughter graduate from High School, but Chaylce has been in ICU too many times during the last few months and is there once again . . .