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Thank you. What can I love you with? Yes, in 2020, my sister was 64 and she had a massive

brain bleed due to COVID. I was the only one that could be with her. By the time I got

her to the emergency room and got in to see her there, it already put the breathing tube in.

Then they had to take her down like 75 miles away to the bigger hospital. So then I drove

in the middle of the night to go down there to be with her and see what we could do. I talked

to the surgeons and what would you do if it was your mother? They said it was probably one of the

worst ones they had seen. If she made it through surgery, she probably would never talk. She would

never have a breathing tube and a feeding tube and blah, blah, blah, that kind of stuff.

So I made the decision that it was time to let her go. Sorry. Which is all well and good,

but my mom is 89 and she lived with my mom. Every so often we'll bring up. I think we should have

tried something else. We should have let's given her a chance. We should have done all these

things and explained to the mom. I asked everybody, every doctor I saw, I asked.

Okay. This is what I want you to do from now on because it's a ridiculous view to have the same

discussion again and again when you're missing the point, but it's easy to miss the point. Okay.

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