The Potty Mouth Granny

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?

The decision to sign the DNR paper for my mother. My mother was very ill towards the end of her life, and her doctors kept trying to get me to sign the paper but I couldn’t do it because she was my mother. The first heartbeat I ever heard. The strongest woman I ever knew and who had overcome so much. But she couldn’t overcome this and I couldn’t allow her to be in pain so I signed the papers. And the next day, she was gone.

Next week will be the eighteenth anniversary of her death and not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought about her but I don’t regret my decision to let her go. She deserved to be free of pain. I like to think she’s chilling with her family in the land of the ancestors, still keeping an eye on us. Free from pain, with both of her limbs intact. No more suffering. Free from human misery. A spirit. My Ma.