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My wife's mother, who lives in England, was diagnosed with Pulminory Fibrosis last fall. It was a 12 month prognosis. My wife is an only child and her mother lives on her own.
Her mother has been hospitalized a few times, the latest last week. They have enriched her oxygen to the highest level as her lungs deteriorate.
My wife has been calling three times a day. Also talking to her doctors and McMillen nurses (home care). She has been over there for extended periods four times this year so far.
Today she called to find a neighbor in the house. She came for her daily check on the MIL to find her too weak to feed herself, etc.
So at 1:00 we knew my wife needed to get there, and by 1:30 I had found her flights. Only way I could get her there was from Jax to Houston to London to Manchester.
For those, like me, who believe in the power of prayer, I ask that you send up one for my wife and MIL. That my wife has a safe journey and has strength to face what she must, and to ease the suffering of my MIL.
Binded together, more than one is the presents of the lord. We pray for safety for your wife as she travels and the strength to be with her mother and the perfect will concerning your mother-in-law in this season of life. Need to pray for you as well for the emptyness of not being there with your wife and mother-in-law.
I lost my dad Sept.13 of this year with mesotheolima, a lung cancer that does the same. He was 88 and knew the Lord.
I am adding your family to my daily prayer list. I know too well what this feels like for you. I lost my dad, my brother and best friend, and my father in law all within a 10 month period recently. My faith is what sustains me and I pray that God will sustain you and your family as you face this difficult and uncertain time.
BTW she lost her father September 15. Her parents were separated and her father lived in Australia so there was no chance for her to see him as he went pretty quickly. He had TB in his twenties and lost most of a lung and eventually, after all these years, the results of that stress is what got him. Both parents, divorced when my wife was 2 years old and living in different sides of the world, will both die of lung disease and in probability only a few months apart.
Her comment to me as she got out of the car at the airport this afternoon "I don't know how many more times I can do this." I simply said "you will be able to do it as many times you have to."
For you that believe, please send up a prayer. 
