This is the day my Mother died. Sixteen years ago, but it seems like yesterday. I have smelled lilacs all day, a reminder of her. She loved lilacs, and always shared the flowers from her huge lilac tree with me.
Mom was a character. Always vibrant, intelligent, very artistic. She always told me “You can do anything you want, but don’t forget - you get what you settle for.”
Well, she never ‘settled’ and neither did I. She never saw my accomplishments in life, due to diabetes taking her life short. In fact, in one more year, I will be as old as she was when she died. I consider myself young, although I’m sure some ‘whippersnappers’ out there may not! I have to laugh out loud.
Mom knew most all of her grandkids before she died, and none of her great grandchildren. She instilled in all of us how important family was. We’re all a tight-knit group because of her. We still have some of the Christmas trinkets she had around her old Victorian style house. Mother loved Christmas. She said it was the one time of the year we all HAD to come home. And, we did.
Her house was a Disney World of Christmas. Sparkling lights, Victorian decorations, candles everywhere. The house smelled liked baking pies and home. Mom knew how to bring the family together.
I miss her. We all do. But we all know she is in such a better place now. She suffered mightily, although she never showed it till the end.
I have a candle lit right now. Not so much for my mother (although that’s the original reason I lit it), but for all those who suffer from, or have loved ones who suffer from, Diabetes. May we one day have a Cure.
I pray.
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My mother suffered comas, and many other things because of diabetes, throughout her life. It is a wicked disease. She had what they used to call "Juvenile Diabetes".
I believe that is what they call "Type I" diabetes now.
My mother died due to the trauma of having to have her legs amputated. She could withstand everything else, but not that.
I'm sorry to hear about your aunt. My mother suffered those symptoms, also..she was blind and deaf for one year, following her kidney transplant - due to the mega-antibiotics and other drugs they gave her to make her kidneys 'take'.
She spent a year in silent, blind hell.
I pray for the day no one has to suffer from this horrible disease ever again.
I hope you always remember your mother in the most loving light, as I remember mine. I know you will.
MY PRAYER AND THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU IN YOUR TIME OF NEED.
GOD BLESS YOU!
Cheryl....thank you so much....my mother was my best friend, also....I miss her everyday, but especially on the anniversary of her death.
Lune....thank you for your kind words. They mean much.
Thank you, Donna....you are so right about the comfort our memories give us! Whenever I smell lilacs in the air, I know my mother is close by.
Peter...thank you...so much...for stopping by and giving comforting words.
If she was/is anything like you she is an exceptionally unique, special woman with her own mind, doing things her own way and living life on HER OWN TERM; and you carry on in a great way in her honour AND tradition. She has to be proud. You stand out, and must be a SHINING example as well as a tribute to who she is.
I salute you and her and regret not being able to share with you on August 9.
day late :=(
10 to you!
10 to her!
As with cancer, I too hope that one day a cure for diabetes (and its modern variant from obesity and environmental factors, diabetes 2) is found. I pray along with you.
Thank you for sparking me to think of my own dear departed father today!
And you, too, Liz.....thank you......such wonderful words...I'm honored. Your comment means so much to me.
John....I pray we find a cure for all the horrible diseases and disorders....and prayers, I believe, are heard.....thank you for joining me. Your words are soothing.
My mom has diabetes too, and I hope she's ok.
Julya...thank you for your kind comment, and I pray for your mother. I pray for a cure for diabetes.
Peggy Ann....what sweet words! In your grief you will learn of the love that was there.....and the more time goes by, the more you will discover the love behind it all that drove the dynamics....you would not feel the torment unless the love was underneath it all....Thank you. You are in inspiration to ME!