This blog post will sum up some of the events leading up to my mom's death, in particular an especially emotionally damaging week that I'm still having difficulty getting over. Warning: this will be long. 

To say that my parent's marriage was never easy would be an understatement. In the 22 years of my life before my mother's death my parents had separated and reconnected at least once a year, separation lasting sometimes as long as 2 years. When I was in high school my mother…

My mom passed away 19 months ago from triple negative breast cancer which had spread to her lungs and brain. In the couple months before she passed, my parents' house had burnt down and in addition to losing the house and a lot of our "stuff", the hardest part was that my two cats succumbed to the smoke from the fire and passed away curled up with each other under my parents bed. I was away at school at the time and found out via phone call. We were so lucky my parents escaped relatively…