Holiday Support Strategies

Thanksgiving had just passed and the holidays were fast approaching. Getting out all the boxes of decorations, the house looked like I was getting ready to move; chaos before beauty. In the midst of the unpacking, I received a phone call that my mother had been taken to the hospital. She had been ill, however we did not realize how serious it was. I had no idea when I left the house that day that when I returned I would have held my mother in her final breaths and said goodbye, as did my 2 sons, father, 4 brothers, 4 sister-in-laws, 9 nieces and nephews and many friends. Mom died on December 22.

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