After loosing my father Dec 28 2010 these last five weeks were trying...
Journal Entry...yet again .... my mother's brush with death at soon to be 87 a survivor of cancer twice...this time takes the cake
Yet Another Purpose
A knit's hair
(if they have one?)
from death,
you dared all odds.
Not just once
but time and time and again.
At 45, ovarian cancer,
total hysterectomy,
with 35, 9 minute radiation treatments.
(that alone should have been the clincher,
but it has finally caught up with you.
radiation colitis and diverticulitis)
Five years ago cancer found again
in one kidney and the other adrenal gland.
Those then removed.
Leaving you with one tired old kidney
in stage four renal failure.
Fast forward to the last five weeks...
And intestinal blockage that ruptured,
and your one tired old kidney
asked to process the sepsis and poison.
ICU for 12 day's
10 of them on a ventilator.
You body swells bigger than
"Jabba the Hut"
A task insurmountable for a young healthy person.
But you manage ...
somehow.
Three more weeks in the hospital,
just to learn to ....
swallow
move
walk
talk....
LIVE
(it's amazing the little thing we take for granted)
How then are you still here?
When Dr.'s all had written you off.
So many times you have broken the odds.
God must have a greater purpose for you!
JoAnn, I second Kath's words.. on this extraordinary poem. You are an amazing daughter...your Mom is lucky to have you around. Hope she is better soon and please take care of yourself..love- Sandra
a blessing for your mom indeed she is
Oh Joann, what you yourself have been through supporting your mum shows that you have her indomitable spirit. Please pass on to your brave mum my very best wishes, and tell her how wodnerful her fellow poets think her daughter is. :) kath xxx
I glad that your mother's life was spared. I hope that the other matters prove capable of resolution. My father in law has so far enjoyed a year of bonus time after his hospitalization last Easter.
A terminal illness is a blessing in this sense. It allows one to feel th touch of human care and it affords a long goodbye and a certain message of love and humility. Her will to live sounds amazing and is inspiring. I'm sure she knows she is loved very much and how nice is that to know... We should all be so lucky.
Sometimes a spirit won't let go, no matter what the pain...to see another Sunrise, or to look once again and again - or hope to - in a beloved's eyes, or the touch of a hand. Proof of humanities tenacity.
What a trooper your Mom is and she is lucky to have a wonderful daughter like you, bless you both