Yes, this happened with my mother too.
She was having a lucid conversation with my stepfather when she suddenly broke off, looked at the foot of her bed and said, “Dad? What are you doing here?” (My grandfather died when I was one or so.) She passed away the next day.
I can’t think of this without tearing up. My best to you ivylass and your family.
My Grandmother (82) had been going a bit funny for a while, it was decided that she could not look after herself any longer. She managed to get her entire block of flats evacuated three times in false fire alarms… My mother, her daughter could not look after her full time and neither could my auntie. So the family made a decision to put her into a residential home, different from a care home, only in the residents are still somewhat independant.
The first week she was fine if more confused than normal, then falling in the night she broke her hip (before I go on, My grandmother has never been a very pleasant woman. All through her life she has tried her best to bring down my Mother and Auntie, to keep them in her rut. She is not a figure of love in my life. I dont want any of this to have happened, I’m not heartless) Then once her hip had been fixed she fell again and broke her left shoulder, this happened last week. I am in no doubt that this will finish her off, the family especially my mother is going through a stressful time, luckily i’m at university so not there 24/7.
She is talking to deceased reletives (not being nice to them I might add) but this may just be the state of her mind. Its the general wasting away that has always struck a note with me, seeing the elderly loose weight is in my opinion when you know… 