Special Meal for those interested - after the service in Glen Rose

We have arranged for all of our family and friends to engage in a social meal at a local restaurant in Glen Rose after the burial, at approximately 4PM. This Mexican restaurant is called Chachi's, the most visited and recommended restaurant by locals in Glen Rose. It has a room called "The Patio" where we will gather privately. Everyone is responsible for their own meals. All selections will be off of the menu. This time of day on Sunday is usually fairly quiet anyway. Most of the restaurants close at noon on Sundays in this town. Prices are reasonable. I have a copy of their menu if anyone wants to ask about any specifics.

Obituary in Fort Worth, Mason and Glen Rose newspapers

AUSTIN-- EDITH DORINE SCOTT, 87, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, formerly of Glen Rose, TX, born in Mason, passed away on Thursday, the 2nd of October 2008. She passed peacefully to join her beloved husband John Scott both awaiting the Kingdom of God.
Funeral: 2:00 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, at Wiley Funeral Home. Burial: Squaw Creek Cemetery in Rainbow, Texas. Viewing will be from noon Saturday until service time Sunday, at the funeral home. Joe Banta will deliver her eulogy. The family requests that flowers be sent to the Wiley Funeral Home in her honor.
An additional service will be held in her memory on Monday evening at 7:00 p.m., the 6th of October 2008, at the Christadelphian Church at 600-c Leander Dr., Leander, TX 78641.
Edith was an amazing woman who cherished her faith in God with the Christadelphian Church, her love for her children, grandchildren, music, gardening and all of god's creatures. Survivors: Edith leaves with the cherished memories of her children John Randolph Scott, Prentiss Wayne Scott, Miriam Gail Wilhoit, grandsons Jeffery Scott, Russell Scott, Sarah Scott-Lambert, Kelly Scott, Kimberly Smart, Jared Terrell, John Wilhoit, Benjamin Wilhoit, Christopher Scott, and her great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Also survived by her sister Sharon Cooper.

Wiley Funeral Home
Glen Rose, 254-897-2288

Accomodations in Glen Rose

I have arranged for a group rate of $107 for double queensize rooms at a new Comfort Inn. They currently have 9 more available. You must make reservations with credit card as normal for them to hold a room. The discount rate is set for AARP and a special discount for sad events. No AARP ID required for you. I satisfy that ID. Just say you are part of the Scott funeral group. Normally the cost is $150. Please consider staying here. It is located on state highway 67, near the funeral home. It has breakfast and WIFI internet included. I am staying here Friday and Saturday.1615 NE Big Bend Trail, Glen Rose. 254-898-8900 Map

Update on arrangements

Tentatively, mother will have her Glen Rose funeral at 2PM this coming Sunday, October 6th. She will have a showing from 8AM to 1:45PM Sunday at Wiley Funeral Home in Glen Rose. We expect to have the Austin service on Monday evening in the Christadelphian church in Leander.

Wiley Funeral Home
504 Holden St
Glen Rose, TX 76043
(254) 897-2288
Map

The End came peacefully

Mother passed away at 8:30pm tonight. The hospital did a great job in helping us to get family together with privacy. We had a spiritual farewell to a woman we all loved and respected. After we all said our goodbyes, talked and shared life together. There was music to establish a solemn mood that was interspersed with celebration, for we all have a positive view of her future. Death is, after all, a part of life. She was leaving us for something better. As the room became quiet, with some of us leaving for home and others going to get a bite to eat, she decided it was time to leave. She picked precisely the time that was right. It was just like her to calculate her departure. We should say how she left was unusual. Sarah reported a spiritual experience that coincided precisely with her departure. I will not go further into that tonight.

Mother is deeply loved by her family and her spiritual friends. We will miss her.

Tentative arrangements

There will be two funeral services. One in Glen Rose and the other in Austin. The one in Glen Rose should be on Sunday afternoon and open casket. The one in Austin is undetermined. We hope to have a showing on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Flowers are preferred over donations to charities. Times to be determined. The burial will be in Glen Rose next to my dad.

All of this can be changed but we want everyone to be aware of the plan. Sorry that it is on such short notice.

The end comes - family decision today

After continued efforts by doctors, mother and her family, medicine now will no longer be able deliver what is needed to save my mom for any kind of quality life in the future. Our family has been reaching this conclusion over the past three days, especially yesterday. Today we met with the doctors and concluded that there is no medical hope for the future. Therefore, we requested the hospital to remove her from life support this evening at 6PM. Her primary physician says that she will very likely pass within 24 hours afterwards. She could go within minutes or hours after removal of the life support systems. The ventilator and its hoses will be totally removed so that she can pass in better comfort. The dialyses will cease. Tomorrow is a scheduled dialysis day and she will not be put on it. I believe she will be moved this afternoon to a regular room, probably sometime after the final process starts at 6PM. We are working out the details with the funueral home in Glen Rose and reviewing her post-mortem Will today.

This posting is to communicate that this will happen today. We cannot predict when she will pass away.

Your prayers for her are appreciated. She has been a super granny, a super mom, and a super person. Our family will miss her in too many ways to say at this moment. We will be so sad to see her go, but we look forward to seeing her in the Kingdom of God. I cannot express how deeply we love her. In life there is death; in death there is life. Arrangements will be announced here. I have limited telephone numbers since I lost my cell phone last week, so if you do not get a call, please understand that it doeres not reflect how important you are to us, just the lack of phone number.

Please feel free to call me at 832-515-0236 or enter a comment on this blog or send me email if you wish to ask questions. God bless you all for your support and prayers during this very difficult time.

Photograph taken a couple of weeks ago

I finally uploaded photos from my camera.

Tuesday AM 10-01-08

Time keeps marching on and I lose track of it. It is another month! Mother has a low grade fever this morning. The doctor took her off of aspirin and another medicine for heart thinning because of the bleeding, so adjustments continue to be dynamic. Her lungs are about the same as yesterday as evidenced by the Xray this morning. Her white blood count is higher, around 18,000. There are no indicators that reveal what is happening if anything. Her condition can just result in fever some days. However, there could be an infection. She had a blood culture ordered this morning to see if there is anything that can be detected. It is doubtful it will show anything. She has had many and all turned out to be negative. That is good. The doctor wants to be sure nothing new is developing. He put her back on some antibiotics temporarily just to make sure. She is doing OK with her bowel movements and there is no detectable blood loss, so an increase in tube feeding was ordered. She is not on morphine nor any sedatives but is on a pain medicine.

The lung doctor says she has fluid on her lungs but there has been no change. Her trial for removing the ventilator equipment failed. She was OK for a few hours but her oxygen lowered and the machine had to be restarted. They ran it overnight in a combined mode but now have switched back to full assist at a Oxygen level of 50% and a rate of 8. She is breathing faster than 8 on her own. This is a setback and could be a brick wall. If a brick wall, she may take a lot longer to come out of this. We will consider a tracheostomy on Monday or Tuesday.

We have asked for a meeting of doctors again to see if a concensus can be determined on her outlook. Today, she remains in a state of recognizing people. Two people have seen a smile on her face when they talked to her. I was one of them. She looks at visitors in the eyes and will turn her head voluntarily to look at them. I started talking about he tstock market and she woke up, opened her eyes wide and seemed interested tis morning. It is undetermined if she still is able to take and respond to commands by the staff. That is required before they take her off of the ventilator. The effects of the Propofol remains in question. The goal is to get her back into the discussion of her future and her desire to stick with this fight for her life.

The dialysis extracted 2.4 liters of fluid this morning. The target was 3.5 so this was not as good as hoped. The rest of her chemistry appears to be OK.

Monday night 09-30-08

She had to be put back on to the ventilator. Her blood oxygen took a dive about 5PM. They have not resumed the general sedative. She is on morphone for events such as baths. She was uncomfortable and restless in the night. This is a setback. A decision will likely be required today whether to do a tracheostomy or not. I am leaning that way pending what the doctor has to say.