A Dedication To My Mother by Jean.

Today I am mourning, I lost my mother November 4, 2007 on a Sunday morning.  My heart is aching.  I was there with my mother for two days in the hospital (in hospice) watching her slowly slip away.  I used my nursing skills to help tend to my mother.  I never knew the day would come my skills would be used for that.  But now I see when someone as close as your mother, you could stay professional and do your job but I lost it.  I saw a glimpse of my mother passing.  I panicked and started screaming and shouting "Stop! You're killing my mother!"  I knew my mother was suffering, but I could not watch her leave me.  My sister who was at the bedside with me assisting my mother, pulled me back and calmed me down.  I started taking down I.V.'s and holding my mother.  I was restrained and was told to leave.  I've never known so much hurt and panic and helplessness in my life.  I've been a nurse for 30 years and for the first time I couldn't do anything!  I cried.  So I'm telling the world-- mothers and daughters to love, be happy and enjoy the time you have together because you never know the day, the time, the hour or the minute your life ceases to exist.  I'm going to miss my mother.  Throughout all her faults, her kindness, her tenderness, and our mother and daughter squabbles I still loved her.  And I know one day we will see each other again.  So mothers and daughters take the time to hug each other, call each other.  If you can go for a walk or go shopping.  Or invite them to dinner.  Because it may be your last. 

                                               -Jean

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