Five days ago my mother has passed. I knew some four weeks ago she was slowing down. She got COVID some three weeks ago, which she recovered from, but she did not recover from the two falls that she got shortly after that. Falls in that age bracket are sometimes the beginning of the end, which was true in her case. She was given two weeks to two months, the next day it was one to two weeks, the next day after that she was given one week, and then it was a few days.
My brother and sister were able to make it down here in time. It was a hard week for all of us. As I am writing this, I am still dealing with arrangements and other matters related to this. I have been off of work for these past two weeks, with the exception of yesterday since there wasn't anything to do on the home front (and I felt the need to start working on getting back to the status quo ante).
We take comfort in knowing that she is with the Lord.
I regret that due to her dementia, I was not able to have "deep" conversations with her like I was able to many years ago. To be honest, she was very difficult to deal with this past year. We were able to get her into assisted living last January, and that was not easy.
As stated before, I am still working on arrangements. I am taking today off of work in an effort to get them finalized.
No comment at this time on the election results.
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