The good and the not so good
I went to my mother’s former place of business yesterday. It was my first time there since she died last month. I was there with a friend of hers, and, I was fine until I went to the area where her office used to be, it kind of took me by surprise. But, we were there for good reasons, as an annual event there is going to be named after my mother. Pretty cool, huh?
However, the good was tempered by the sad after I called another friend of hers on my way home. This friend is someone without whom we would not have been able to keep my mother at home as long as we did. She was a huge help to my father, a good friend to my mother, and, I realized I hadn’t talked to her in a while.
When I called, she didn’t really sound like herself, and, she told me that she has liver cancer and has 1-2 years at the most.
I’m still processing that information.
Oh goodness…when it rains it pours. Seems to be that way. I’m so sorry.
I was just thinking that I know three people who died last week…one, Terry’s grandmother, then a good friend of mine from high school’s mother died and a man from our church who had taught both boys in Sunday School. I guess this is just how it is, now that we’re grown ups.
Wow. There’s nothing to say to that. I can only say that I know you will be as good friend to her as she was to your mother.