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Jul 21, 2009 01:34

Exhausted.

Very busy day on very little sleep.

I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping lately for what's going to sound like a weird reason. To fall asleep I need to daydream, and lately my daydreams haven't been... satisfactory? There's not really an appropriate word.

My grandma rang to say it doesn't look like her mum will live much longer. The doctor maintains that it's an infection and she will recover, but the staff at the care home and the family think she's going to die soon. As bad as this will sound... It's sad, but it's a probably a good thing. She's been saying for a while that she wants to die, and looking at the last few years it's not difficult to see why. Apart from the normal problems that old age brings (she's a couple years shy of 100), she was diagnosed with dementia about three years ago and barely eats and drinks these days. She was also hit hard by unexpected family deaths. Her daughter-in-law died before she reached 50 a few years ago, and a couple of years after that her granddaughter (in her mid twenties) died.

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