Mark, What a incredible story and it just sent chills down my spine.
It is so wonderful your mother was able to see you get married.
You have a wonderful wife and it is just awesome how family pulls
together in a time of need. My mom was put in hospice in early Jan.03
on a Friday night the doctor told me to get my siblings in town quick.
I am in Ohio had a sister in Vegas who had to get a plane a brother in
South Carolina and a brother in another city in Ohio who had to drive.
The doctor said she would be lucky to make it 24 more hours. To make
a long story short my mom was not ready to go anywhere but home.
With the help of my brother who is a nurse she came home on Tuesday
and had what she called the best week ever getting to spend it with all
of her kids together. She continued fighting and passed away on
March 18th, 2003 I was her caregiver and she talked about that week
with us all being together and telling stories of old times and laughing all
the way until the day before she passed. Haylee