we said goodbye to Troy’s mother Ruby. She had been in the hospital since her heart attack and she never recovered from her open heart surgery. She went through so much, she ended up having to have both her legs amputated and from there things went downhill. I remember going to see her that day, it was so difficult seeing her like she was. Troy had spent every moment he could at the hospital in between working full time and attending college full time. He ended up flunking one of his classes because he spent every spare moment at the hospital. I wrote the Dean of his subject and asked how they could do that to him. How could they expect him to not spend his mother’s final days with her. They reversed his grade and excused him for his lack of presence in that class. For that I was thankful. He loved his Mother so much and so did I. Losing her was so very hard. Her death changed him….he was never the same.
Jane is a Widow 