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A Year of Goodbye
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Eldercare & Dementia
By E.E. Kennedy There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains.
~Author Unknown I stood on the wide porch of the hospital and stared out into the vast parking lot, not even seeing the hundreds of cars. I felt numb. It was happening again: a death sentence for a beloved parent. With my mother, it had been complications from breast cancer. The disease had spread into her lungs, spine, and finally the brain. I remembered her courage as she faced the inevitable and how we had quoted the Twenty-Third Psalm as her spirit faded before our eyes. Don Edwards, my daddy, had been devastated, but in the intervening twenty years, he had made a life for himself. Now, it was his turn. Leukemia. His bone marrow, which had lasted for ninety-three years, was just plain worn out. The kind oncologist had called us into his office and told Daddy in his warm East Indian accent, "Sir, at your age, you are not a candidate for a bone-marrow transplant. However, we could try to treat the disease." (Keep reading) | 
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