Thank you all very much for your wonderful positive thoughts and prayers for my family! Ya'll mean so much to me and I feel uplifted when someone takes the time to respond.

CANDC, thanks for the info on the hearing. I had assumed the hearing was the last to go as I have worked with the dying and one of my daughters has done that as well in the past. We were always telling family to talk to their loved ones no matter what as it can be heard and can bring peace to all of them. I will definitely remind daughters again.

As far as the humor goes, well, I find humor helps in dealing with the difficult things in life. My ex and I used to jab each other all the time, some of it was funny, lots of it was hurtful, but I'll stick with the funny now.