Pop is in Hospice Care

Hi Everyone,

I haven't been posting to this blog very often, mostly because all the news that I have been accumulating and seeing first-hand has been bad. And if you don't have anything positive to say, then ...

But I thought it was important to let everyone reading this know what's been going on the last week.

Pop's health has been declining. He is unable to keep his lungs clear on his own and keeps aspirating on his feeding tube, even though they had the PEG put in a while back. This has been causing him a lot of pain, so rather than go through another operation to put another tube into his small intestine, causing more pain and with very little hope of success, his doctors and the family agreed that it was time to put Pop into hospice care.

He could pass on any day now, and the family is together with him at St. Claire's in Dover, NJ. I know that there are many people reading this who may feel that they wished they could have found this information out another way, but so many people know and love Pop, and it was the only way I could think of to make sure everyone knew.

I've added a "Call me" button to the top-right portion of this blog. If you like, you can leave a voice-mail message to the blog to offer words of encouragement.

Thanks again to everyone who has offered words of encouragement and asked how he is doing throughout this ordeal. I know it may seem silly to be so surprised that an 89 year old man is in failing health, but he is my Pop-pop and I will always love him.

Love,
Jason