For the Love...
The Miracle Lady.
That's what my Aunt Mary Lou was nicknamed in her doctors office in Ohio. She died last Friday after a long battle with cancer. I think my cousin Debbie, her daughter, said it best when she said that now my Aunt's suffering is finally over and the rest of us just have to get through our pain. I miss her so much.
A little over a month ago, the doctors told my Aunt that they were stopping her treatment, the chemo wasn't working. When the doctors diagnosed her with cancer for the third time back in November, they told her that cancer should have killed her ten years ago. She wasn't afraid to die. She once told my Dad that she took every day as it came and was thankful for what she had. So every day for the past ten years was a gift.
She was the best Aunt anyone could ever hope for. She had so much love for us and was always so tolerant, especially with me who was a difficult child to say the least. She fixed my Minkie, the raggedy thing that used to be a blanket that i still sleep with every night, until she literally couldn't sew any more thread to it. She never teased me about getting rid of it either, even over Thanksgiving and Christmas last year when I had it home. She put up with a very young me constantly trying to get a glimpse of her bald head the first time she had cancer. She played ridiculous board games like Telephone Tag, Mall Madness, and Clarissa Explains It All for hours and I expect let me win too. She used to let me put bows and clips and all sorts of things in her hair, and take pictures and do it all again. When we would play Dominoes with the family she would make funny faces with me while we shuffled the dominoes, to the point where my Uncle Sonny would call us "pistachio" nuts. She called me Sister Susie. She used to poke fun with my Dad, and came up with the best practical joke I've ever heard of or witnessed to this day.
We were lucky to have her in our lives. She loved us so much and I don't think we could have loved her more. She was an amazing woman and she touched so many people.
I'm happy that she is no longer in pain, and is with my Uncle Sonny. Now I just have to wait for my heart to stop hurting, and be thankful for all the wonderful memories I'm left with.
She was an extraordinary woman.
I love you, Aunt Mary Lou. RIP.
That's what my Aunt Mary Lou was nicknamed in her doctors office in Ohio. She died last Friday after a long battle with cancer. I think my cousin Debbie, her daughter, said it best when she said that now my Aunt's suffering is finally over and the rest of us just have to get through our pain. I miss her so much.
A little over a month ago, the doctors told my Aunt that they were stopping her treatment, the chemo wasn't working. When the doctors diagnosed her with cancer for the third time back in November, they told her that cancer should have killed her ten years ago. She wasn't afraid to die. She once told my Dad that she took every day as it came and was thankful for what she had. So every day for the past ten years was a gift.
She was the best Aunt anyone could ever hope for. She had so much love for us and was always so tolerant, especially with me who was a difficult child to say the least. She fixed my Minkie, the raggedy thing that used to be a blanket that i still sleep with every night, until she literally couldn't sew any more thread to it. She never teased me about getting rid of it either, even over Thanksgiving and Christmas last year when I had it home. She put up with a very young me constantly trying to get a glimpse of her bald head the first time she had cancer. She played ridiculous board games like Telephone Tag, Mall Madness, and Clarissa Explains It All for hours and I expect let me win too. She used to let me put bows and clips and all sorts of things in her hair, and take pictures and do it all again. When we would play Dominoes with the family she would make funny faces with me while we shuffled the dominoes, to the point where my Uncle Sonny would call us "pistachio" nuts. She called me Sister Susie. She used to poke fun with my Dad, and came up with the best practical joke I've ever heard of or witnessed to this day.
We were lucky to have her in our lives. She loved us so much and I don't think we could have loved her more. She was an amazing woman and she touched so many people.
I'm happy that she is no longer in pain, and is with my Uncle Sonny. Now I just have to wait for my heart to stop hurting, and be thankful for all the wonderful memories I'm left with.
She was an extraordinary woman.
I love you, Aunt Mary Lou. RIP.