Hoping Mum is wrong

This morning my Mum said "I think I'm going to leave you soon", and to that I replied "no of course you're not, you'll be fine you're going back to the doctors today and we'll see what they say, we'll pack your bag and either way you'll be admitted to PeterMac or Royal Melbourne, you can't stay here like this, you need to go in, they will put you on a drip and get your fluids up and you will feel much better". What if Mum is right and she is departing this earth very soon? Do we ever really know when our time is up? Or is it because she is in pain that her mental state is such that makes her want to depart and meet her maker because she just can't take any more? Last night while talking to her she seemed fine for a few minutes, speaking to us better and more alert than she had been for the whole day, and yet this morning she's weak, in pain and can hardly put three words together. I am hoping that Mum is wrong and that by the end of today she will be in hospital with a drip in her arm, comfortably sitting up in bed eating something and with a big smile on her face!  

Steph