Monday, October 23, 2017

The End! Gone Home...

The End! 
Gone Home...
by Nicholas Ashton, CEO/CIO, CommSmart Global Group

Death is guaranteed, everyone and everything will die eventually, it is how we get to that finality that is totally different for us all.

Sylvia Marjorie Ashton passed away on October 25th, 2017 and suffers no more.

My Mother had suffered over the last few years with Parkinson's, which has now taken its toll in the worst way with other medical issues.

Being 4,217 miles away and other members of the family there, doing all they can is difficult mentally.  It is now a waiting game whilst doctors are relieving her major pain problems with high doses of morphine.

We are a family spread around the world and communications via Smartphones, texts and 'live' video calls is our way of knowing, understanding and just waiting for the call regarding our Mother.

As the eldest, I am closer to one brother than the rest of our large family of diverse eight siblings and he and I talk much more. For him, he has been the one dealing with the day to day ways of looking after her, which I know has not been easy on him or his family.  Don't get me wrong, all have pitched in and assisted in every possible way.

Death comes in many forms, you think it is just like a switch turning out a light, that simple, it is, of course, not.

This woman does not deserve to be in such a place, hovering between life and death.  The doctors are attempting to ease the issue for her regarding pain, but those that love her are in the same in-between conflicts of can we assist in other ways.

This is a daily and hourly occurrence faced by everyone in this ever-changing world.

I just wish...

Wishes and prayers do get answered...


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