Random perspectives from Cleveland

More news of my grandmothers steady decline today... She had a doctors appointment to see if there was anything they could do to make her more comfortable. She has two large (multiple inches) spots where the cancer has broken through the skin, effectively creating ulcers on the skin. There are many more that are close to breaking through now. They wanted to see if they could at least do targeted radiation on those, so that she could be more comfortable. Right now it's swelled to probably twice its normal size. She wears a compression sleeve almost constantly, but it's still swelling quite a bit. She's also quite tired most of the time now. She seems to get a little energy boost in the afternoon that lasts for about 5 hours, but only if she's been resting in the morning. Her spirits are high though, or at least as high as can be expected at this point. It could all be a show though. I don't really know what's going on inside, because she doesn't share that really. At this point, she's aiming for the highest quality of life possible, and if that means calling her pain merely discomfort, that's what she does. She says she's hanging in there and taking it one day at a time. Really, that's all any of us are doing...