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Veteran's Day and an Etiquette Question
2002-09-20 - 9:28 a.m.
My Aunt
Okay.. hold onto your hats folks....I just found out that my Aunt (my mother's sister) is in the hospital with CHF. According to my sister, she's gasping for air and fighting for her life with every breath. The only way they expect her to leave here is feet first. Just the thought of it makes me want to sit and cry, but I can't, I'm at work.
She is a very sweet lady, and I'll miss her. She could be a real zinger with the truth and she always told it like she saw it. I'd call her a curmudgeon, but that wouldn't be right. She always meant well. She loved my mother and I know she loved me. She will be sorely missed. My heart aches for her and her family. My cousins are older than I am, but they'll finally know what it's like to have both of your parents gone. How isolated and alone you can feel.
She is a wonderful woman (I'm not ready to use the past tense here); and even though I haven't had much contact with her, it was always comforting to know she wasn't far away. She was my contact with my mother, in a way, and there's a good chance that contact will be gone soon.
I'm embarrassed and ashamed I've not talked to her for so long. I'm upset that I didn't spend more time with her or visit her since my Mom died. I just wanted to distance myself from the pain of that moment in time. I hope she understood.
I didn't deal with it well then, but I'm better able to do that now. If she does go, I'll be going through this with my sister, and without Gorm. I hope I'm up to that challenge.
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