Just some appreciation for my mom. Her service is Saturday.
My mom was 19 in the first photo, 17 in the second. She was homecoming queen her senior year. The third photo was a few years before she got sick and the last was her birthday last June. She was 71 when she passed last month. Even through the haze she loved her grandbabies, especially my daughter Maddie who’s sitting with her on the couch.
She started sundowning over the summer last year, if you had told me last fall she had less than 6 months, I wouldn’t have believed you. She was full of piss and vinegar and hated her caregivers. Then in January of this year things really started changing physically. Developed mobility issues. In march she stopped taking interest in eating and drinking. She was in hospice just over a month before she passed.
This disease is cruel, and unpredictable. You never know how much time you have left.