# Right now, on the sixth level of Hell **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 12, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-on-the-sixth-level-of-hell/978129 "2023-01-12T20:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-on-the-sixth-level-of-hell/978129/18 "2023-03-07T05:10:56Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Last Thurs was a _fun_ day. SO & her daughter were on the way home from an unplanned multi-state drive to visit mom/grandma when they got the up (down?) graded diagnosis - “Terminal” (last I heard they still haven’t figured out what specific type of cancer it is, other than, ‘Stage 4’ & ‘malignant’) Well that went fast. SO’s mom was admitted to the horse pistol late last week. Family was told she wouldn’t leave alive. SO came down Friday. We were talking yesterday. I explicitly told her to go ask the nurse what she thought as hospice nurses have a much better pulse (no pin intended) on the situation since they deal with it everyday. She stated a week or so. This morning I got a call, “Get here, NOW!”. Southwest was quickest, but not quick enough; she passed before the connecting flight landed. He’ll of a start to the year, 65 days in & we’re both now motherless --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-on-the-sixth-level-of-hell/978129)._