We pulled her out of the hospital...
...coming home and having hundreds of family visit her during her final month...
Damn good work.
Cancer is scary as fuck and my mum had shown us all a kind of strength that I never thought was imaginable. Even on those last days when she had completely deteriorated, she still looked into Dads eyes and recognized him until the very last moment. There were days when I thought keeping her alive was cruel, but those thoughts would be quickly met with mum snapping out of her dementia like state and behaving as her old self again. In the end, mum looked just like people appear to look in concentration camps. She fought right til the end, wanting to stay with us forever.
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