Godspeed!

When I posted the last blog, "Life happens quickly", I had no idea of the events to follow.
Within a day of that posting, everything we had feared and hoped would never happen DID.
A year prior, Mom had been given the diagnosis of 8 to 13 months. Chemo was to help extend that time frame and give her quality of life. Well, if I knew then what I know now! It did neither.
Four days shy of that 13 months, Mom left us to "Go Home".
For 2+ weeks, she kept telling us she wanted to go home. We tried to console her and tell her that she was home, in her own house, but, we didn't realize that she had another home in mind.
Don't really know for sure, if it was dementia, cancer spread to the brain, or the horrific terminal aggression, but her rants and screams were about different stages of her life. In retrospect, she was rewinding her life. Going backwards in her memory. It was frightening and devastating, but, for her, it seems, she was reliving the high points of her life. A life well-lived.
She was a strong, valiant woman, amazing in so many ways. She taught us so many lessons right to the end. Never give up or, as I can still hear her own Mother saying "Put it in God's hands."
That's what we did, Mom. Godspeed!