![]() This should not surprise anyone who knows Cynthia. We no sooner got her settled in the living room when, true to form, she immediately started dictating who should do what and how and one of the first orders of business was getting her a glass of wine. About an hour later, an ambulance arrived with an all-female crew and Cynthia in tow. The hospital bed was delivered the next day, a Friday and was set up in the living room which had a beautiful view of the many acres Cynthia lived on and of course, the sunrise. So, I packed a bag and drove down to Wisconsin. ![]() She asked if I could come and be there with her and help with her birth center, which was on the ground floor of her house. After a few groggy telephone exchanges, Cynthia told me she was being put into hospice, they had told her she had perhaps 4 months, and she was going home in a day or so, as soon as they delivered the hospital bed. ![]() This was not a huge surprise since she had stage 4 colon cancer for the better part of the last 2 years and had been in and out of the hospital several times over the last 4 or 5 months, although she had never been in the ICU before, so I had a bit of a sinking feeling. At the end of September, I was informed that my friend and mentor of 30 years had been hospitalized in the ICU.
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