Mom is gone. [View all]

[RandySF]

Last edited Thu Oct 9, 2014, 11:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Mom is gone. She very quietly shut down and slipped away today. False hope is the cruelest thing life can ever send you. She seemed to have been getting better and I thought we were going to beat this, but she didn't. At the very least my wife and son and I got to say "I love you" on the phone. I'll be the first to admit that I am a coward and I'm glad she left before I got Back East to see her at her worst. My last memory will always be giving her a hug before going to the airport and saying "see you at Christmas". I saw her standing, smiling, hugging her grandson, saying to .me "you're a good father".The woman she always was until just before the end. Soon we'll say my final goodbyes and be the man she always believed I can be. Goodbye mom.