I am finding re-living this traumatic time in my life to be more emotional than I anticipated. However, I am also finding sharing to be therapeutic and healing.

And, it occurred to me I haven’t shared what precipitated my moving nearly 2,000 miles across country, escaping care of Mother during the last weeks of her life.

I’ve been a strong person throughout my life, yet I found myself near drowning caring for Mother. In addition to dealing with Mother’s treatment towards me, which I have been sharing in detail, there was also the lack of support from my siblings, and in fact some outright personal attacks.

Fortunately, I have some good friends who were watching me disintegrate and told me I had to get out to save myself. After visiting friends and relatives throughout the states, I choose here in the southwest, desiring a completely different atmosphere, weather, plants, different style of life.

As a life-long learner, during these past couple years, I have continued to research and find meaning to what I lived through, this I have been sharing, and there is more to come.