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Mermaid: Passing of Parents a Time for Reflection
As many of you know, both my parents died in the past few months…
It was sudden, traumatic, exhausting, and extremely sad.
I’ve run the gamut of emotions from shock and disbelief to numbness and anxiety. I’ve cried myself to sleep and balled my eyes out at stoplights in the middle of the day.
I’ve dealt with the extremes of hospital life to the finality of hospice care. My life went from mostly normal to extreme chaos in a matter of days.
And through it all a funny thing seems to be happening……
As the fog begins to clear, the world looks different through new eyes. You begin to face your own mortality and realize every day really could be the last.
