"TOO MUCH FOR ONE PERSON TO BEAR"
by Rhonda Mcmullen
(Syracuse, New York)
MY ANGEL
IT ALL STARTED 3 YEARS AGO, FEBUARY 9,2006 @ 9:00AM. I GOT A THAT PHONE CALL, MY MOTHER TELLING ME THAT THAT MY SISTER WENDY WAS NOT BREATHING. SO I CALLED MY NIECE TO MAKE SURE SHE WASN'T OVER-EXAGGERATING THE SITUATION. ON THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE WAS SCREAMING AND PANIC, AND I INSTRUCTED HER TO CALL 911.
MEANWHILE I WAS ON MY WAY TO HER, SHE LIVED JUST 5-7 MINUTES AWAY, WHICH FELT LIKE HOURS TO ME. WHEN I FINALLY GOT THERE, OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS HAD ARRIVED AND WERE STILL ARRIVING.
INDEED SHE WAS GONE IN HER BED, WITH THE MOTION OF TRYING TO GET UP. SHE HAD DIED FROM A FATAL SEIZURE DUE TO AN ALLERGIC REACTION TO A MEDICAL PROCEDURE DONE ON HER THE DAY BEFORE.
ON DECEMBER 29, 2007 1 YEAR, 10 MONTHS LATER, JUST WHEN I THOUGHT MOURNING AND TRYING TO RECOVER FROM MY SISTER'S DEATH HAD BECOME A PART OF MY EVERYDAY LIFE, MY NEPHEW TRAMARRA WAS TAKEN FROM ME ABRUPTLY AT THE HANDS OF SOMEONE ELSE. WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME. HE WAS STABBED MULTIPLE TIMES, 1 FATAL BLOW PEIRCED HIS HEART. HE DIED SEVERAL MINUTES AFTER HE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER UNSATISFACTORY REVIVAL.
SO YOU KNOW HOW THEY SAY DEATH COMES IN THREES? IF I WASN'T A BELIEVER OF THAT BEFORE, I AM NOW. SIX MONTHS AFTER TRYING TO PICK UP THE PIECES FROM THAT TRAGEDY, MY PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS MOTHER IOLA PASSED AWAY JUNE 27, 2008 @5:15 IN MY HOME AFTER A SUFFERABLE ILLNESS. SHE HAD BEEN IN AND OUT OF HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES. SHE WAS FINALLY PUT ON HOSPICE AND WAS MOVED WHERE SHE'D WANTED TO BE ALL ALONG. HER ILLNESS BECAME MORE AND MORE RAPID AND TERMINAL.
SHE HAD THE LOVE AND CAREFUL UNDIVIDED ATTENTION FOCUSED ON HER. THAT'S IT, I CAN'T TAKE MUCH MORE, SHE WAS MY PRIDE, MY JOY, MY EVERYTHING. AND NOW MY EVERYTHING IS GONE FOREVER. SHE WAS A CHRISTIAN WOMAN, AND SHE SERVED GOD RIGHT UP TIL HER DEATH BED. SHE WAS DEFINITELY AND TRULY A WOMAN OF GOD. SHE AT PEACE NOW...
