I saw this now. Sorry for your loss Marnie. Take care.
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12. juni 2006 16:42 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: Mom Passed Away > > Sorry to hear of this Marnie. > > I know what you went through, as i didi with my Mom. > > Thinking of you today. > > Dave > > > I don't know if I mentioned it before, but > while in > the hospital with > > pneumonia, Mom started refusing to eat and drink. The strange thing was, > she didn't > > do it all the time. > > > > For reasons I won't go into, she was in isolation for a while. She came > out > > of isolation last Tuesday but at that time was refusing to eat and drink > > consistently. So I brought her home to die on Wednesday. We did the > hospice bit and > > she died early on Sunday morning (what I think of as Saturday night). > > > > Yes, I was getting tired of taking care of her. It was a lot work, and > my > > personal freedom was seriously limited, especially the last two years, > with > > almost no freedom this last year. > > > > But I had also become quite fond of her. We had evolved a good > > mother/daughter relationship over the years -- and I won't say who was > the mother and > who > > > was the daughter. > > > > So grief is battling with relief. > > > > Yeah, I am sad. I will miss her. > > > > She did, at least, live long enough to come home and die at home rather > than > > in a scary, impersonal hospital. > > > > I never took any more pictures of her hands after she came home to > recover > > from the colostomy (there was about a month between the colostomy and > the later > > pneumonia). However, weird that I am, I did take some pictures of her in > the > > hospital and at home, sick with pneumonia. I don't really know why I did > that. > > > > Thank you, everyone, for your positive thoughts. They may have helped. > > > > Marnie :-( > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
