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When the long goodbye feels too short.
This past July after many years battling Frontal Lobe Dementia we kissed my mom on this earth one final time… I got a phone call from my Stepfather on July 1st letting me know that mom had changed a bit…
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Somewhere in the middle of it all…
I have had so many things to ponder these past weeks of May. May is the month of Mothers…and my mom is currently declining from frontal lobe dementia. I talk about it here from time to time and on my…
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You can’t get it back…
It is mothers day and I feel the need to share something heavy I have been carrying for sometime that has really overtaken me today as we celebrate mothers day. It is a kind of grief that is hard to…
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Dear Mom, you are a gift even in your suffering…
My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers/Dementia 6 years ago. I remember the day she called to tell me, she had such peace in her voice and she said “do not worry, everything is going to be fine”. The news of…