When My Mother Passed Away

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It was about three years ago when my mother passed away. It just broke my heart when I had to say good bye for the last time. She was my life. She was the only one I ever went to for everything. I had friends but my mother was everything to me. About two years before she passed away I knew something was wrong with her. She had lost weight and was about 93 pounds. It was shortly afterwords we found out she had osteoporosis and a sever case of it. One time she sneezed and she broke a rib. She had a severly arched back. Not to soon after that she bent over to tie her shoe and she broke her back in three places. She eventually healed enough to go home but I was so worried to leave her home alone. I quit school and worked when my dad was home. She also was a smoker for a huge part of her life and she smoked about a pack a day. So therefore, she also had COPD and had trouble breathing. A week before she passed away she woke up from a nap on the couch and she was gasping for air. We called 911 and she was rushed to the ER. What sucked was when they laid her flat to put a breathing tube in her I could tell her back was not in good shape. When they did Xrays she had several fractures along her spine and back of her ribs. At this point she was unconscious. I new this was it and that this was the end because I knew she did not want to suffer anymore. My family and I gathered around her and we spent about 5 days in the hospital taking turns and on the last 2 days of her life we agreed to take her of life support because she had gone into a coma and had no more brain function. It was the most difficult decision of our lives. It only took her 24 hours to finally pass away peacefully. Being a Christian and witnessing what I have seen I know my mother is now in Heaven and no longer suffering. This is what gets me through life without her. My message her is for the smokers out there. I hope and pray you all stop smoking. My mother died because of the damage in her lungs. This was determined when the doctors did a lot of tests and X-rays because I had to know what happened. My mother was only in her 50's she was too young to die. If a smoker doesn't want to stop smoking for themselves they think of their family. It really hurts me to know that my mothers life could have been saved if she had stopped smoking a lot sooner. For the bone disease I can only suggest that people, especially women need to drink their milk.