Mom has passed away from a supposedly unrelated aggressive neuroendocrine lung cancer on June 8, 2013.
Update: I look back at this blog and it is about fighting for life and being for a time seemingly successful at battling a horrible disease. Ultimately though, things will run their inevitable course. I wish I had spent more time on connecting and helping her through her final stages of her journey in a way that was more personal and accepting of the inevitable. 10/01/2018.