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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EhlerDave" data-source="post: 3795589" data-attributes="member: 2564">Very sorry for your loss, 4 years seems like yesterday.My Mom just spent 22 days in the hospital. She had a UTI that went septic. She is now staying at my house while trying to rebuild some strength, she turned 80 two days after getting out of the hospital. My  Mother inlaw at age 82 had a UTI, she went septic. She was placed on full life support. My wife was not even told her Mom was sick (just the first 9 days) let alone flown to a place in OKC  and placed on life support. It is never good to get a call from the attending physician at 2 AM. Not how you want to learn about Mom being sick. After almost 3 weeks my wife, alone, her  brother was busy and would not answer his phone, had to decide what to do. The machines were turned off, it was quickly over. Going to her Moms house we ran into the brother, he lived in the house with MIL. The house was mostly empty but we found her legal papers, she had 4 different DNR's, I guess brother did not mention them so time was made to clear out her place. For my wife deciding to remove  the life support was just awful, then finding out it was not to have been used really upset her.To keep my wife and my Mother less stressed out I now have two urns in my room, my Father and MIL sit on a shelf, this is the best the two of them have ever gotten along.</blockquote>