Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
Ten years ago today, I walked into my mother’s room in the nursing home, carrying a cookies and cream milkshake. (I was pregnant, after all.) I found her finally at peace. Today, I’m remembering my mother’s death after Alzheimer’s disease. Anniversary of My Mother’s Death after Alzheimer’s Even after 4 days of waiting and watching […]
I struggle with contentment. I’m a perfectionist, firstborn, type A, always looking for something better, worried about the future, and a slave to my own expectations. The week of my mother’s death was much more difficult than I had anticipated. I was just sure that after years of watching my mother suffer and decline in […]