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My 71-year old mom was diagnosed with cancer in the upper region of her stomach. She underwent complete removal of stomach and surrounding lymph nodes. After surgery, the pain medicine side-effects were awful. My mom was seeing things that weren’t there and having delusional thoughts. After several days the doctor began my mom on liquids. She began to cough-up bile and began having other problems. Ultimately, my mom lived for 10-days and never left the hospital. She died from cardiac arres...Read the full article