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Missing Mama

I lost my Daddy when I was just 15, some 28 yrs. ago. He had been sick a good part of my life growing up until then. I was a Daddy's girl and it was a huge loss. I had the advantage of youth, and the "having the world by the tail" attitude, along with time, I survived that loss, eventhough it will always hurt. Flash forward to 10 years ago, and my Mother began her battle with dementia and Alzheimers...the slow losing battle. I witnessed her slowly dissolving away from me..and it began to take its final toll, along with Parkinson's Disease, in this last year. I would go by the nursing home almost every day, hold her hand, and cry, tell her that I loved her, eventhough, she could not respond it was my prayer that she heard me and felt me with her heart. She past away on Sept. 12. There is a huge hole left behind and I am still hurting, but I know that she is not suffering anymore. I will always miss both of them very much....there is a verse that I found and I would like to share it..

I know that there is a tomorrow when the sadness and heaviness and weariness of my heart will lift and be replaced by the sweetness of memory. But I don't know how many days away that tomorrow is.
  posted by vpo65 on October 23, 2009


Comments:

My grandfather had Alzheimer's. Mom and I would be of support for each other through that ordeal. All the while, mom was going through her own medical problems. Grandpa would be of support with her problems because at least they weren't his Alzheimer's. Grandpa eventually left us, then it was just mom and me. Just as before I would visit mom almost 99% of the days while in hospitals and nursing homes. I have felt a little guilty for thanking God for taking mom but I know she is in His loving arms. I like to think she is free from this physical body and continues to live in spirit. She is still in the beat of my heart. They are still with us. We are with them.

  posted by JoeD on October 23, 2009