Mick, I work with people with cancer for about half the week, Aids and HIV the other...I can testify that doctors often get the time frame wrong but that isn't really the issue. In some respects Darla has the same length of time as the rest of us, right now, which is all any of us have. From what you have said of her, I am sure she will use the time well and, as someone else said, at least you and her family will get a chance to say goodbye. May whatever Gods are approriate to you and to them see you through this and comfort you, I wish we could do more. love Terri