Great Meeting!

We had a wonderful meeting at Hospice Hawaii last night. I'd love to hear feedback from others on how they feel it was and what type of further support we can arrange. It was very cathartic and heart-warming for me personally. We had a great turnout - see the photo above! Eric and I just feel so overwhelmed by all the love and support...to know that we are all going through this as a group is so comforting...and such a relief.

We've had so many wonderful visitors. As I sit writing this right now, I can hear Jim Franklin playing guitar and singing at Peggy's bedside...I'll blog more soon about all of our visitors and share some photos..we also have some big plans manifesting for the next couple weeks..stay tuned...

Tonight's Meeting

See you all tonight at 6pm at Hospice Hawaii. And thanks to the amazing Suzanne Maurer, Jan Hanashiro, and Joyce Nunokawa, food/drinks will be provided! Thanks guys!!!

Early Thanksgiving Celebration

Please join us for our early Thanksgiving celebration at Peggy's on Sunday, November 16th at 2pm at Peggy's house - 3115 Alika Avenue Honolulu HI 96817

Our early Thanksgiving will be a potluck event. My wonderful parents have offered to manage the RSVPs and planning for this event. Thanks mom and dad!!!

If you can join us, please RSVP to my mom, Willow Morton, by email at mortonj001@hawaii.rr.com - RSVPs are appreciated as soon as possible so we can get a handle on everything...Please let her know how many people will be coming and what dish you would like to bring.

We are looking for at least 5 people to do turkeys...and if you have any question about what to bring, just touch base with my mom who will have a master list of what everyone is bringing...we'll also be needing papergoods, cups, etc. and help with set up and clean up.

If you have any questions regarding this event, please direct them to her...

Thank you and hope to see you all on the 16th.

Go Obama!!!!

Hooray for our new president-elect! Peggy is no doubt thrilled over last night's victory. We know she's breathing a sigh of relief knowing that Obama will be at the helm soon.

We've been having a wonderful time at Peggy's. We've had tons of visitors. Lots of laughing, crying, and reminiscing...We've had people reading to Peggy, drinking wine, telling jokes, sharing stories, talking politics, reading dirty emails...and we know Peggy is loving it all!

Karen has been busy decorating the house - we are speeding things up and bringing Thanksgiving and Christmas early to the Chun house! I'll be sending more info soon regarding our early Thanksgiving celebration...

Just a reminder that tomorrow night, Thursday at 6pm, we are having our Hospice Hawaii Support group meeting at their offices. Please join us.

Online Calendar of Visitors

Thank you so much to all of you for all the loving calls and emails. Your kind words and support mean so much to all of us.

I have created on online calendar that you can all see at the following link http://ical.mac.com/chunzy/peggychun

Mac users can subscribe to this calendar in their ical programs.

I've put on the calendar some scheduled visits and also mainland visitor travel dates. Many of you are asking the best time to come. Please take a look at the calendar to get an idea of what the days are looking like.

You are welcome to drop by without scheduling a visit, however, please take a look at the calendar first to see if someone might have some scheduled private time with Peggy before you come.

HOWEVER - if you can't check the calendar or you just happen to be near and want to stop by, please just come over! This is the time! You know Peggy - the more the merrier!

Please email or call if you would like to be put on the calendar.

Important Update

Aloha Peg's Legs, family, and friends,

We have been trying to talk to many of you in person or by phone, but we really wanted to share this update with everyone as soon as possible. Peggy's circle is so large and she is loved by so many. Please forgive us if we haven't yet had the chance to talk to you directly.

As you know, Peggy's communication has been declining over the past few months. We are now at a point where she can no longer effectively communicate. We are down to "yes" and "no" communication, but even confirming yes or no is uncertain. Peggy still has eye movement, but it seems as if now Peggy is having trouble controlling her eye movement.

When Peggy could communicate, we had many discussions about her wishes. Peggy's wishes were always that once she could no longer effectively communicate, she would like to be weaned from the ventilator. Dr. Davis came in on Monday for an in-person assessment. It is his feeling and the feeling of the core group of family, nurses, and caregivers, that it is time to call family and move ahead with Peggy's end-of-life plan.

Dr. Davis asked Peggy if it is time to call family and she said "yes". He asked if it is time to move forward with her plan and she said "yes". It is a blessing that we could read her response to these questions.

We have begun to call family and Peggy's very large extended ohana. Peggy's wishes were that we call and email EVERYONE and let them know what is going on. She wanted us to give friends and family a couple of weeks to come and visit if they choose to.

If you would like to come visit Peggy, now is the time. It is a blessing to have a time line like this - not many people do. Peggy's wishes give us this gift of time.

I know that many of you will have questions, so please don't hesitate to call me. Please also talk with each other and support each other during this time. It is such a blessing to have a large ohana like ours - we can support each other and truly create a beautiful "rest-of-life" care environment for our Peggy.

It was always Peggy's wish to die in her home surrounded by tons of friends and family. Peggy may not be able to spell it out, but I know that if she could, she would be saying, "Celebrate me! Love me! And make it a party!"

This is a time to spend quality time with Peggy and each other. Come and hang out, share stories, hold Peggy's hand, cry, laugh, or just be "present".

Some family members are planning to make the trip out here in the next couple of weeks. We are working on an early Thanksgiving celebration at Peggy's. The tentative date is Sunday, November 16th. We hope you can all join us.

You can help us by talking with each other and sharing with others that you think would like to come and visit. If anyone would like some one-on-one time to connect with Peggy, please let me know and we can arrange that.

Hospice Hawaii is on hand to support us. We have scheduled our first support group gathering for our Peg's Legs next week Thursday, November 6th at 6pm at the Hospice Hawaii Office at 860 Iwilei Road Honolulu HI 96817. Phone number is 924-9255.

We really encourage you to join us for this meeting. Please RSVP to me by phone or email. We will be scheduling other group support meetings over the next few weeks as well.

With love,

Kimi and the Chun Ohana

Photos from Halloween

We've put our Halloween photos up on Shutterfly. Check them out here Peg's Legs on Shutterfly