My mom's last words to me before I lost her (my take on it)

[The Straight Story]

"Mick, send him home, he can't handle this."

Mom saw me that night, two nights before she passed - she was so out of it. Hallucinating and such, which took me by surprise. Dad took me out in the hall, and filled me in. She was not gonna make it, and she was sort of out of her mind. When I got there she did not realize where she was, and thought the baby (my daughter) was caught in the pillow case.

When I walked back into the room she saw my face. My tears and pain. I tried to hide it, to no avail. And she came out of it all, for her little boy. She looked at my dad and told him to send me home (I was there to relieve dad for the night) as I could not handle this. She was adamant about it. She knew I hated hospitals as much as she did, and in all the haze of meds and dying she saw through it all for but a moment.

Somehow, she overcame it all - to try and protect me from the pain.

That was mom. And that is how I see the world and our leaders these days.

Will they ever break out of whatever it is they are feeling to take care of us, the people? Or will they just continue to slide down until this democracy is dead?

Even in her final days, mom cared enough about me to think about what I was going through. Her baby was seeing momma dying, and she stopped and made sure I was ok. She put all those other cares aside that night, in that moment for me.

From somewhere deep inside she pulled it all together for a few moments for me.

I only hope to God our own elected officials can care enough about us to do the same.

No matter what they have done we can forgive them, but right now as we see our country dying we need to hear something from you. We need you to wake up and hold our hands one last time, and let us know you are there for us.

We can't handle this administration any longer. We don't care if you fail in trying to impeach them or cutting war funding, we just want to know you are there for us and willing to fight. We want to know that you are there for us, even in the worst of times.

Mom lost her battle - but she won the war in my heart. All was ok and still is, because in her last days she stood and fought it all. And that is all I ask of those we have worked for and voted for.

The time to stand is now. Before it is too late.

My mom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOq-M1dFHw

[hang a left]

1. Mr Story...

That was just beautiful. And it shows the love and protection that mothers have for their children regardless of their age.

However, I think that it is dream-like to expect our leaders to empathize with our mourning over our republic.

They are perpetrators; They feel no guilt.

Regardless of the party, and there are few that are not compromised in one way or another, they serve only one master. Unfortunately it isn't "the people as WE".

That illusion is something we all have to shake in order to redeem our democracy. In essence we must start from scratch, have term limits, rid ourselves of big money, and oh yeah, get rid of the sketchy voting machines. We need a truly representative government.

"You have a republic, if you can keep it".

It hasn't been kept.

Have any ideas??

[MatrixEscape]

2. Despite how we would like to caste them ...

Our government is supposed to be a representation of the will of the people, not a matriarchy or patriarchy. Yet, they do play on that idea and capitalize on our lack of maturity as adults in that we seem to crave some kind of replacement for those important roles that help to shape and mold our early development.

It is easy to hope and wish that our seemingly elected officials would act like a good parent figure. In a way, the role we give them is somewhat like a familiar family figure who we would want to be there and step in when the going gets rough, collectively. Yet, we are dealing with people who are largely not compassionate or benign in their motivations or actions. We are dealing with career builders in politics who are looking out for number one and smashing heads on their way to the top, as is prevalent in a capitalistic system where oneupmanship is disguised in various costumes of altruism and benevolence.

[papau]

3. It was the same with my mom - and dad - and now I'll stop for now. n/t

n/t

[rustydad]

4. So sad

My mom passed a few years ago. She had dementia near the end and had little understanding of her reality. She had organ cancer and died in her sleep at home. Now my dad is deteriorating. He lives alone in the family home and fainted a month ago and spent two weeks in the hospital. My 2 sisters and brother and myself now stay with him 24/7. He sleeps about 90+% of the time. He can barely get to the bathroom using a walker and one of us holding onto him. He grows weaker and weaker. His mind is fine but he has lost the will to live. He is 89. We refuse to warehouse him in a drugs and diaper facility. Watching someone fade away only makes me more furious at how casually bush and the other thugs can kill and maim. Fuck them one and all. A special hell awaits them. Bob