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Originally Posted by The Village Girl;***459

I know you are responding to Gracie, and my apologies for jumping in, but this just brings up MORE questions.

Your neighbor is alone, dying of cancer with no one to help her. She is too weak to fix a meal? Shouldn't she be in an assisted care facility or with family to take care of her? How does she make it day to day any other day?

that's correct, village girl. she has a home health aide who comes for a few hours a day to assist with the activities of daily living and her niece has arranged for a housekeeper to come in and clean weekly. the niece leaves her family and comes from a distance to spend the weekend for company and grocery/necessity shopping and to put medication in a wkly pill container. my friend does not want to leave her home until she requires hospice care. she's a tough old girl! whaddaya think of that?