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Posted 2014-09-10T20:05:51Z

Coming Home


After 12 days under the care of the excellent and compassionate staff at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, we have made the difficult decision to transition Fred to home-based hospice care. We just arrived at 1:30, and Fred is sleeping comfortably in his hospital bed.

Fred has not been awake and lucid since yesterday afternoon, and we are not expecting him to be responsive from this time forward. But maybe he can feel some sense of his surroundings, and the love of immediate family gathered here: Betsy and Nat, Sara, Becky, Michael, Ted, Linda (assistant extraordinaire), and nurse Melissa from Martha's Hands, who is taking the first shift.

We're setting up this site to keep all of you up to date on what's happening in these last hours, or days, of our time with Fred. Please, share your favorite photos and stories, or any thoughts and prayers you'd like to express. We are so appreciative of these kind gestures.

More to follow soon.[...]