I lost my father a few months ago to cancer. We live many states apart. He passed 3 hours before my plane was set to take off. I was devastated, I was never able to say goodbye. My mother is also in stage 4, she on the other hand lives directly across the drive from me. I will take a leave from work to care for her. She transitioned from her oncologist to hospice last week. The nurse will come twice a week, cna twice a week or more often as the time approaches. I am not looking forward to it. I am sad beyond belief. At the moment she is doing ok. Still cooks and fiddles around with the computer, etc. But we received the last of her blood work results from her oncologist. Her kidney function went from 17 down to 11 in a two week period. If it continues that way she will not live the four months that they average she will have left. Dear God, please give me the strength to see this thru, please be kind to my mother, she means the world to me. I am begging for a peaceful death. Please everyone reading this, please offer up prayers for a easy peaceful ending. I don't want to take prayers from my mother... but I know that I will most likely lose it... so maybe a prayer for me that I may keep it together. Thank you <3