Hi, I can only speak from experience, but my Dads final days were almost identical to Carleens husbands.
About a week before he died (May 18th 06) he too started to talk about the strangest things, right in the middle of a normal conversation. We` re British, but suddenly out of nowhere, he started to talk about Bill Clinton!
I too think that this was part of the dying process, yet at the time, we just thought it was the drugs.
We fully expected Dad to come home from the hospital, even for a few months. It was such a shock when he died, especially since the day before we had been talking about my childhood and all the daft things we got up to.
You all need to make the most of whatever time he has, and if he does get stronger over the next few days, then maybe chemo would be an option.
Dad was so unlucky in that the chemo did absolutely nothing for him, despite him having sclc, but we saw many others at the hospital who really benefitted.
I think the most important thing is to get his pain under control and for him to be kept as comfortable as possible.
