Life is way too short! I have been a visiting teacher for a dear friend for ten years. She passed away about 18 months ago. Her daughter had come to take care of her the last six months or so of her life. The daughter, Mary, decided to stay and bought a house next to her Dad to take care of him. She had been in breast cancer remission for 7 years but started having some knee pain. It was discovered that she had bone cancer. The doctors replaced her knee and she had chemo treatments. As she was doing physical therapy, something happened to her knee and she had to have a second replacement. During her rehabilitation after the second surgery, she fell and broke her hip. They discovered that the cancer had spread to the brain. She has been going through hours of radiation and chemo treatments for the past couple of months. Wednesday night she was taken into the hospital because she had developed pneumonia. I spent most of the day and evening with her in the ICU yesterday as she really struggled to take every breath. Her children were all gathering from afar. Her son did not arrive before she passed away last night about 10:30. I will miss her! She battled so hard for the last 8 months or so. She just wanted her children to be in a good place and happy and her Dad to be cared for. Her Dad has had several mini strokes over the last few months but I know he has been hanging on until she was gone. He was the strong arm and always there to take her to her appointments and just be with her.
Life is so fragile and short. Praise every day you are alive and live it to the fullest. Cherish your family and forgive others. I am sad but I know she is with her mother and she is not suffering anymore.
