breebylou
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- Jan 28, 2008
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- CALS
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- US
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- ok
- City
- tulsa
My mother, who is forty-three years young, told me a while back about some of the symptoms she'd been having (slurred speech, a foot that would drag,) and I thought, "Well, whatever, it'll end up just being nothing and we'll go back to our normal life." Wrong. What I didn't know is that through a process of elimination, we would find ourselves looking at the thought of ALS.
So she's all I'm-tough-and-not-scared and she kind of laughs at me when I'm bawling my eyes out, but what I'm thinking is, "Woman, you've got me (age fifteen), and two other kids: nine and six years young, how are you not upset thinking you won't get to see your kids get marriend and you grandchildren and everything else you are going to miss out on?!?"
I really don't see how she can be so optimistic, usually she is the sadistic one and I'm telling her it'll all be okay.
My question is : how do you get used to the fact that the person you love more than anyone else in this world is going to die, and what can you do to help them as their main caretaker?
So she's all I'm-tough-and-not-scared and she kind of laughs at me when I'm bawling my eyes out, but what I'm thinking is, "Woman, you've got me (age fifteen), and two other kids: nine and six years young, how are you not upset thinking you won't get to see your kids get marriend and you grandchildren and everything else you are going to miss out on?!?"
I really don't see how she can be so optimistic, usually she is the sadistic one and I'm telling her it'll all be okay.
My question is : how do you get used to the fact that the person you love more than anyone else in this world is going to die, and what can you do to help them as their main caretaker?