Thanks for writing these pieces. I can really relate to them. I also felt that my mom got really really crappy care in the hospital and continue to go over one thing after another that I or the hospital could have or should have done differently. I also related to how up until very late you were always very hopeful that she was going to come home. It was the same for me. She had gone in for a second round of chemo and the thought that she would not be coming home never even entered my mind.
The other thing that really haunts me is that when my mother was diagnosed with acute leukemia she was fine. The doctors themselves were shocked that she was showing no symptoms. She literally was absolutely fine. Yet she started chemo and six weeks later was gone. Should we have rejected the chemo? I don't know? Anyway you're a great writer. I found the pieces helped me a bit. Thank you.
Again thanks, Frances. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I wouldn't read this sort of personal narrative normally, but you're one hell of a writer. RIP to your mother. Rot in hell to your dad for EVER saying a cruel word to you. No, I'm not a believer, meant the latter figuratively, and I'm a notch or two further out on the anti-theist end of the spectrum than you. I don't believe any of that horse-pucky. WERE there a god, I'd have "words" for him/her/it ... or as I like to say, she/he/it aka SHIT. LOL !!
Your mother should be revered by the world for producing and nurturing you.
Thanks for writing these pieces. I can really relate to them. I also felt that my mom got really really crappy care in the hospital and continue to go over one thing after another that I or the hospital could have or should have done differently. I also related to how up until very late you were always very hopeful that she was going to come home. It was the same for me. She had gone in for a second round of chemo and the thought that she would not be coming home never even entered my mind.
The other thing that really haunts me is that when my mother was diagnosed with acute leukemia she was fine. The doctors themselves were shocked that she was showing no symptoms. She literally was absolutely fine. Yet she started chemo and six weeks later was gone. Should we have rejected the chemo? I don't know? Anyway you're a great writer. I found the pieces helped me a bit. Thank you.
Again thanks, Frances. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I wouldn't read this sort of personal narrative normally, but you're one hell of a writer. RIP to your mother. Rot in hell to your dad for EVER saying a cruel word to you. No, I'm not a believer, meant the latter figuratively, and I'm a notch or two further out on the anti-theist end of the spectrum than you. I don't believe any of that horse-pucky. WERE there a god, I'd have "words" for him/her/it ... or as I like to say, she/he/it aka SHIT. LOL !!
Your mother should be revered by the world for producing and nurturing you.
Thank you, Ken—sometimes when you’re desperate, you want to believe in “horse-pucky.”