tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19999796.post4968818895087834173..comments2023-10-25T09:19:28.243-05:00Comments on Art Heart: Part I of a Long Story with a Sad EndingLesley Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886738338936113459noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19999796.post-63586881809957571452008-01-04T00:32:00.000-05:002008-01-04T00:32:00.000-05:00I am sorry to hear about your mothers passing. I w...I am sorry to hear about your mothers passing. I wish you peace in this time of sorrow. I know that there is nothing that compares to losing a parent. I will share with you that a few years ago when my father passed away, the one thing that soothed me the most, was making a book of all and any photos I could find of him. It was a way to remember lost moments and happy times. I wish you and your Ana Conceicaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04396303435532555787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19999796.post-82894295498936809282008-01-02T13:56:00.000-05:002008-01-02T13:56:00.000-05:00Looks like many of us can relate to your story. A...Looks like many of us can relate to your story. And the part about the medical community treating parts of the person, but not the whole person! So very true. <BR/><BR/>Ten years later, I still feel so guilty about my aunt's last illness. I trusted the doctors to get it right but her main doctor went on vacation, assigning her case to another doctor, who had to go out of town, assigning her KathieBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16656254673754646801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19999796.post-1619065963984684732008-01-01T11:17:00.000-05:002008-01-01T11:17:00.000-05:00Oh Lesley--this all sounds so very familiar. It w...Oh Lesley--this all sounds so very familiar. It was only in the last three months of my aunt's life that I learned to navigate "the system." At one point, knowing how quickly my aunt was failing and seeing her horrific loss of dignity and self, I asked one of the in-take folks at the rehab facility why they encouraged my aunt to spend $$ for private therapies (insurance had stopped paying in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19999796.post-31892598504011475042007-12-31T22:32:00.000-05:002007-12-31T22:32:00.000-05:00Lesley, my heart is with you and your family. I'm ...Lesley, my heart is with you and your family. I'm so sorry to hear of your mother's death. We experienced similar frustrations dealing with my parents' ill health and my father's death this Thanksgiving -- they hardly ever "asked the right questions" and then the answers never truly matched.<BR/><BR/>But Daddy is gone now and we try our best every day to go on in the way he wanted. My mother is aLynda Boltzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14297394480947070214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19999796.post-69500434504025417352007-12-31T19:57:00.000-05:002007-12-31T19:57:00.000-05:00This is very eery, because I too, do not really kn...This is very eery, because I too, do not really know the cause of my mother's death, except that she was in respiratory distress. But the reason for her hospitalization was increasing and severe back pain that had dogged her for months with no answers from the doctors as to the cause. When asked what she died from I say "respiratory failure." That means nothing, but it's an answer. But it's not Terry Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16650965451863656517noreply@blogger.com