A week ago we were awaken at 3:00 am and told that Mom wasn’t expected to live much longer. Paul and I rushed up to the nursing home. We stayed five hours. During that time Mom woke up once and tried to say something. I’ve always had a spiritual or mental connection to Mom so I felt she was trying to tell us to leave. A week before that she had been alert enough to say she loved us and said Good-bye. We all left around 8:00 am. but planned to go back later that afternoon. At 10:00 a.m, they called to say she passed.

We were expecting it but when it happened, I felt a part of me went with her.

I find myself about to say to Paul, I’m going over Mom’s” then realized she is only in my heart.

I am so thankful that we had her for 88 years. Even though her mental health was about destroyed, she remained mentally healthy until she developed Lewy Body Dementia four years ago. Her heart is what failed her.

Mom is gone but will never be forgotten.