By December she was in a lot of pain, the doctors told us it was near the end. Granny had initially talked of dying at home but she knew it would be too hard on my grandad as he would still have to live there after she had gone so she made it very clear that instead, she wanted to be at Dove House. As odd as it sounds it didn’t feel like she was going there to die. They still did a care plan for her, made her feel comfortable, and settled us all in. The doctors and nurses kept us in the loop at all times and still allowed us to make decisions for her as we knew what she wanted. Granny was a fighter, she fought to the end until I heard my mum say to her one day as we were leaving ‘It’s ok now Mum, you can go’. The nurses told us quite often patients hold on until you let them go or they wait until you have gone home. She died later that night, she was finally at peace.