Although the blog is new, my journey began four months ago. It was June 16, 2009, when I took my mother to the hospital and we discovered that her lung cancer, which had been in remission according to the PET scan in December, had metastized to her brain with multiple lesions. On top of that, one of the lesions had bled giving her a "hemorrhagic stroke." She died August 23rd as I sat on her bed and held her hand. For the last two hours of her life, I said prayers and sang to her. I started out with Protestant prayers and hymns. When I ran out of those, I did all of the Catholic prayers and hymns I knew. I sang and wept until after her breathing stopped and I knew no amount of resuscitative effort could bring her back.
The change in me began in June.
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