My Mother is Dying
They told us today that my mother is dying. We’ve called in hospice care and all we want now is for her to be as comfortable as possible.
It’s a strange feeling to know I am about to lose my mother. She’s been such a huge part of my life. I’m 70 and she turned 92 yesterday. I know I’ve been blessed and have had my mom a lot longer than many people got to have theirs. She has been the unchallenged matriarch, the center of our family, for many years, and life is going to be very different.
Until this last year, since November 2020, she was independent, busy and my closest…