Thanks everyone!!

Looks like things with my aunt are going faster than we all have expected. The plan we originally had (that my mother is caring for her in the morning, I around noon and her son in the evening) won't work because she's going downhill so quickly that she cannot be left alone for only a couple of minutes. She refuses to go to hospital or a nursing home, and my feeling is that there isn't much time left - she is sleeping a lot, does not eat anymore and barely talks, plus she's gotten very weak now. Her daughter, who usually lives in Paris, had originally planned to go back home today, but she has decided now to stay here for the rest of the week. That way, my aunt isn't alone during the night.

She told my mother this morning that her end was near, so I guess it's only a matter of time...

Kirsten