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“Everybody goes through the dying process in their own way,” said the LPN to my sister, Marlene, and I. We’d been told as much the day before, from another nurse, when Marlene had pointed out that Dad had gone through the death process with his eyes open the whole time…right up to his passing…“But people […]
Posted at: March 30th, 2012 - 11:51 am - Number of Comments » 0
Losing your second parent can stir up feelings of abandonment—that you’re all alone in the world. “Orphaned adults” we are called…even if our parents lived a long life…and it was an expected death associated with “old age”. Yes, it may have been expected…but with it there is soul searching…and a feeling of being without a […]
Posted at: March 27th, 2012 - 5:01 am - Number of Comments » 0
My Mother seems so far away from me, On that beautiful white shore across the sea. Yet I remember love’s soft glow upon her face, And the feel of her touch and tender embrace. When I am weary from the burdens I’ve borne, And the path is unclear and I feel so forlorn, I remember […]
Posted at: March 26th, 2012 - 4:34 am - Number of Comments » 0
I had started my grieving in the years my Mother lived with Alzheimer’s…and it grew in intensity in the years before her death…as she gradually evaporated before my eyes. For several months after her husband of 68 years died in June 2010, she’d displayed a disinterest in life and started to wither away. (She had […]
Posted at: March 7th, 2012 - 11:09 am - Number of Comments » 0