My mommy.....

Okay, so I'm a week late in giving my mom her mothers day credit, but it's been a busy week!

My mom is by far one of the strongest women I know. She has been through so much in her life that most of us will never have to deal with. She was by my side for years as I under went test after test, and surgery after surgery, while every doctor on this mountain tried to figure out what was wrong with me. When they finally made a solid diagnosis she was there with tears of joy for an answer, and tears of pain for what we thought at the time was a death sentence. When my little sister was 3 she went into a coma, and was unresponsive for 11 days. When she finally came out of it she had forgotten everything she had learned in her young life, she could talk, walk or feed herself, she was back in diapers, just like a newborn. My mom just loved her unconditionally and didn't get frustrated at having to start over... she thanked god that her baby lived. About 7 years ago my mom had what we thought was a stroke. My sister and I wrestled her to the local ER, all the time with her not knowing who we were, and fighting what she thought were 2 strangers forcing her into a car. They found a tumor on her brain, about double the size of a golfball. They rushed her to Phoenix for brain surgery, where they found the tumor to be completley wrapped around her brain stem, and much of it they had to leave. She came out of that surgery with alot of memory loss, and still has very bad short term memory. Thank goodness even my kids are sensitive enough that when grandma calls 6 times in the same day, to tell them the same thing, they act like they are hearing it for the first time every time (this mostly applies to Lyndsay) about a year and a half ago my mom started having alot of seizures, and passing out, they didn't think she would make it much longer, so we rallied the family, for a trip to Hawaii. It was a battle with to get Adam's kids to be able to come with us, but their mom did finally see our side and let them come... that was so important to her that she said she wouldn't go, and we would cancel the whole trip if adam's kids couldn't go. It was devastating to be planning what I thought was a good-bye trip, and acting excited, and crying when no one was looking. Lyndsay is the only one of the kids that noticed that something was not right with grandma. We took the trip, 2 weeks in Hawaii, and I swear the minute we got there she perked right up.... she has not been sick since. I feel like we are living on borrowed time, but I love every minute of the borrowed time I get with her! Never in my life have I met someone who is as genuine as my mom is. She is truely an angel, and thankfully god has seen that I need this angel right now more than he does..... Here's to many more mothers days' with my mommy!