Hi, my mother is dying of lung cancer. We were told she has weeks maybe months to live. She has been on hospice for 6 days. When I went to visit her yesterday, she dozed off mid-sentence over and over again while sitting up. Her eyes would close almost all the way and then a few seconds or a minute later she would snap out of it as she started to fall over. Is this part of the dying process or just a result of the morphine? Has anyone experienced this ? Is she close to death?
There is no way to say definitively when death will happen. I was told by the hospice nurse that she saw no signs that death was imminent five hours before the death. They can only guess. Take each moment, one at a time.
I hope for her sake her passing is just that simple. A nice nap.
As long as she is eating, drinking, going to the bathroom I would think she has a way to go. Difficult from what you’ve written to know how soon. Hopefully she’s sitting where she can’t fall. Ask the hospice nurse if the meds might be a bit strong for sitting on her own.