Really asleep

She's really asleep now. Her eyes don't open, she doesn't move, she doesn't whisper. She doesn't respond at all.

But we still talk to her. Why not? She's still in there somewhere, hearing everything we say - or at least I hope she is. And we spend as much time as we can with her, watching TV, eating meals in her room so she's not alone.

Her heart rate is up, and her blood oxygen levels are down. She's taking about 30 breaths a minute - they're very quick and shallow. She has a fever. Somewhere in there it means that her body is shutting down. Soon, soon, she won't be in pain, and she won't be held back by a broken body. Soon, she'll be gone.