Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
I didn’t know I would say goodbye to my mother eight days after I wrote Keep Me In Your Heart: A Father’s Day Wish. She finally found peace after Alzheimer’s disease. My mother found peace after Alzheimer’s disease The five days leading up to my mother’s death were physically and emotionally trying. I hated watching […]
Dixie Dee Benton Stucky died June 22, 2013, a few months before her 60th birthday, at San Marcos Nursing & Rehab after fighting Alzheimer’s disease for more than 10 years. Dixie was born in Houston, Texas October 11, 1953. Dixie Benton Stucky (1953-2013) As a child “Dee Dee” loved riding her horses and helping her […]
I’ve been struggling to write for the last couple of months but felt like I needed to publish something in commemoration of Mother’s Day. I could blame my hiatus from blogging on being busy with motherhood and working part-time again, but that’s not really the reason. My blog started a few years ago as […]
In a 2008 television interview with my parents about my mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis, I told the reporter, “it’s like we’re losing her in slow motion.” Lately, it seems like I have been surrounded by loss. Several friends have recently lost parents after long battles with cancer, and, of course, most recently, friends from church […]
Last night, I came across my American Girls Diary from 1992. Many of the entries are humorous because they were written by a silly and naive second-grader, but 1992 was a very eventful year for my family and a very emotional year for my mother. Here are some excerpts: My mother, my role model It’s […]