<div><div dir="auto">I’m so sorry. May her journey – and yours – be comfortable. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:08 AM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mother's breathing tube was pulled on Tuesday night, her vitals are <br>
slowly lowering, and she's being kept comfortable with the best hospital <br>
drugs available. At least one person from the family is with her <br>
round-the-clock.<br>
<br>
I returned home last night. If she's still with us on Saturday I'll <br>
drive back up to do what I can to help.<br>
<br>
I saw my youngest brother James, whom I haven't seen 15 years.<br>
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Christine Hall<br>
Publisher & Editor<br>
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
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On 7/25/19 11:58 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> I come from a large family (I'm the oldest of nine), and none of us <br>
> consider my mother to have been a good mom and we all recognize that the <br>
> was very likely mentally ill, so thankfully I have no such expectations <br>
> with which to deal.<br>
> <br>
> Christine Hall<br>
> Publisher & Editor<br>
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
> <a href="http://fossforce.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fossforce.com</a><br>
> <br>
> On 7/23/19 1:35 PM, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz <br>
>> <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>>> My mom passed recently and we weren't close either, but it can still <br>
>>> hit you hard.<br>
>><br>
>> Indeed.<br>
>><br>
>> There’s also the battling emotions of “Everyone expects me to be <br>
>> heartbroken and I don’t know what to say.” That’s how I felt after my <br>
>> mother-in-law died. I didn’t shed a tear, but everybody was braced for <br>
>> me to be upset. Dealing with their expectations was… odd.<br>
>><br>
> <br>
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