Am sorry for your loss. Almost lost a family member to one of those as well. She had a long, hard recovery but she made it. Was not the same as your beloved mother so not sure what hers was exactly. They are awful though and come on you in a flash. That’s the bad part.
Feel really sad for all of you that you never got to say goodbye. I didn’t either with either of my folks. That IS hard to say the least. I take comfort though knowing they know why I couldn’t say goodbye and that one day instead of goodbye we will all be able to say Hello!!
Thank you. It was the opposite for my father, who had been sick for many, many years (my entire childhood)...but at least we got to say goodbye to him, even though we were surprised when he went. It was ‘normal’ for him to go in the hospital then come home, so the last time we were shocked when he didn’t come home. He was 39. :-( Wish that I’d gotten to know both of them better now that I’m a mom myself.