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Her official cause of death in her birth certificate was lung cancer, but that's not really what killed her. Up until April 22, her lung cancer was treated very effectively with keytruda. Her last PET scan showed the cancer was stable and not spreading or increasing. Then on April 22 she fell and broke her hip. She had emergency surgery and they put her hip back together, but she was simply unable to do the rehab. Because she couldn't do the rehab, she couldn't go for her keytruda infusions and the cancer simply wasn't being treated. I believe her last keytruda infusion was in March. After her fall she spent 3 weeks in a hospital and then the rest of her days in the assisted living facility's 120 bed medical center. She was completely bedridden and immobile. For a while she also couldn't have visitors but in her last 6-8 weeks she was designated as Hospice (they have some other term for it in Florida and I forget what it is) and then my father was allowed to see her. I spoke to her on the phone and FaceTimed her a few times. She was generally comfortable but losing weight, and at the very end started coughing a lot and having low oxygen levels, a sign that the untreated cancer was effecting her. In my mind it's really the broken hip that killed her. Although officialy on death certificate its lung cancer.

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