RIP Mom

At 2:00pm PST my mom took her last breath yesterday. She passed away peacefully and not in any pain. When my brother called, I had asked him what really did cause mom to pass away and he said that her lungs were to far gone to substain any air. Besides smoking for more years than I can remember, she also had Pneumonia. Evidently thou the she had the Pneumonia for quite some time.

Here is what conspired to her passing away.

May 14 - 16: Mom wasn't feeling to good. Hardly ate and when I talked to her on the phone the 15th, she said that she just wasn't feeling like she normally did. I told her to go to the doctors. She said she would the following Monday.

May 18: A neighbor's husband who delivers the newspapers, knocked on mom's door to give her the newspaper. Mom never answered the door. He then went home and told Jan (his wife, mom's friend). Jan then called mom's house and didn't get an answer. She tried 2 more times, but still no answer. She then decided to go to mom's house where she and her husband found mom, lying half way on her bed. Her nasal cannula wasn't in her nose(yes mom was on oxygen), it was down by her chin. Mom was cold, shivering and blue due to lack of oxygen. Jan and her husband then called 911 and had the ambulance pick her up to take her to the hospital in Pahrump (NV). The hospital then had mom transported to Las Vegas where they found out that she had Pneumonia and poor oxygen in her blood.

May 19: My sister call's me and tells me the bad news.

May 20 - 22: Mom's condition slowly deteriorates. We hope that mom gets better but we are absolutely clueless to mom's condition. We do know that mom's kidneys were damaged at the time she was found.

May 22: Vincent, my brother calls to tell me that mom was having severe tremors and that the hospital sedated her with morphine to help her rest.

May 23, 12:05am: Hospital calls my sister and brother back to the hospital to give them the grave news. Mom's conditions worsens and the outlook is grim.
I text message my sister to find out what is going on, but she wouldn't say much.

May 23, 4:54pm(cst): My brother calls me to let me know that mom passed away at 2:00pm (pst).

She is now in heaven with my dad who had passed away December 27,2007.
Mom was 71 years old.
As soon as I find a good picture of both her and dad, I will post it. Plus I will be doing a "Memory" video of them, Just like I did for our son.

I will miss mom terribly but that is just the way god wanted it. It was her time to go home. She maybe gone, but I won't ever forget her.

Crying for days

This is totally off the subject of model horses and I find it quite important to post here.

I found out Tuesday of this past week that my mom had been sent to the hospital. Well in the time she was admitted till now, all I have been getting were updates from time to time. Well, Last night at midnight PST, The doctors called my sister and brother and told them that mom took a turn for the worst. Her body is slowly dieing and some parts are now shutting down. Her kidneys were already damaged when she was first found in her home by a neighbor. They don't think that she will last more than a few days at the most. So now I am sitting here, waiting to hear from my brother. When we were talking, he was trying NOT to cry, but I told him that no matter what he was to cry. That was our mom lying there in a hospital bed, dying. It pains me to know that I can't be out there for this, but I got to thinking about it and I want to remember my mom as she was before going to the hospital. I don't want the memory of her lying in a bed with IV's and tubes. It isn't so much as the money situation we are in, but the fact that it is the memory. I know I wasn't there when my dad passed away 1 1/2 years ago. But his death was a total surprise. Mom's is expected. Sometime this week I am going to try to find a good picture of both mom and dad and post it here.

Oh I can't go on for now, crying hard.