I've been missing my mom a lot lately. Surprisingly, it's been harder the last few weeks than it was on the anniversary at the beginning of October ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Mom.

I love you.

There is one cleaning lady at work who, if I'm still around when she comes in, she'll stop and talk to me. I know a decent amount of Spanish but her accent is very thick and she wears a retainer, so I have a hard time understanding her. I mostly nod and smile and pick out/respond to what I can understand ( Read more... )

Ryan came in to check on her a couple minutes past midnight and she had passed. She's at peace and I'm ok.

she's still hanging on, and we're still here. i'm going to have to go get some sweat pants or something at target since Chris gave me two pieces of chocolate but only TOLD me about one piece, so I laid on the second one and it melted in a very unfortunate spot.

This morning mom started having a lot of trouble breathing and was very agitated. They've been trying to make her comfortable but there is a lot of fluid on her lung and she's not strong enough to make it through the procedure to remove it. The cancer has also spread through her liver further ( Read more... )

Mom's fifth trip to the hospital. Third in a row in an ambulance.

I called my dad at 11:15 today to see how mom was doing, because she wasn't feeling very well last night. He said she was still feeling like crap but that it didn't seem like another stroke (I'd made my aunt who was visiting look for signs last night). He said the nurse was coming soon and she could check her out ( Read more... )

( Cut for sensitivity to medical issues: )

My cousin Shannon called me last night to tell me her four year old daughter prayed for my mom while she said grace last night:

"...and auntie Phyllis, and any animals who might have been on the bridge."