April 20, 2016

A moment of reflection from this blogger. Today would have been my mother's 68th birthday. A woman who never smoked a day of her life was taken from this world by lung cancer in August 2013. She had fought, and won, a previous battle with cancer in 1985. A long, scary stretch of time for a 17 year-old girl. I witnessed my father's emotional struggle; saw the tears that he never shed, and cried for him and myself. He was not with us when Mom passed on as his heart failed him two years prior, so my siblings and I served as her caregivers during her final weeks. Still miss them every day.