Cynthia, a dear friend and close advisary in the search for what is healthy for gliders. A strong member of our intense research team and a personal confidant that is very dear to my heart has requested for her final wishes this email be posted for all of her friends to see..
On Monday, June 26, one of Cynthias doctors
informed her that her pancreas is reaching the
end. Waiting is no longer an option, only
surgery soon or terminal maintenance.
She has elected to rule out surgery. There
are too many factors involved. It would not,
in the best of outcomes, return her to a
productive life. There are too many other
problems. Further, it would leave her on a
ventilator with an unlikely chance of getting
off the vent. To her, this is a worse outcome
than dying on the operating table.
Thus, she has elected to accept being
"made comfortable" at home. With ever increasing
pain meds, she will eventually go to sleep
and not wake. There is, of course, no timetable
for this. Something more than a few days,
less than several months. Unless a cardiac
event intervenes sooner.
She has asked me to let her friends know
as she has difficulty getting to the computer
with her tube feeding and trying to stay off
her right foot. Not to mention the frustration
of her neuropathy interfering with her typing.
Those who wish to reach her should do so by
phone, 1-252-635-1269, not e-mail or chat program.
Thank you all for being her friends,
and bringing joy into her life.
Please under no cicumstances send her cut flowers but living plants and other trinkets can be sent to..
Cynthia and Chuck
157 Sand Hill Rd.,
New Bern, N.C. 28560.

Regards,
Chuck

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