[Magdalen] Prayer request (Kathy)

[Molly Wolf]

May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 2:39 PM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, all.
> 
> I just received word that Mom died shortly before 1 this afternoon.
> 
> Kristin
> 
> -- 
>  Kristin Rollins
>  kristin at verumsolum.com
>  Chesapeake, VA
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
>> I'm not sure how to write about this situation, so I will just write.
>> 
>> Earlier this week, my mother (Kathy) was admitted to hospital. And…it
>> seems like this is the end. Just over five years ago, she received the
>> news that her cancer had returned and was given a one-year prognosis.
>> The passport I renewed on that trip has now expired.
>> 
>> I am here, hundreds of miles away, living in another country, and with
>> an expired passport. Our move is only partially complete, and we have
>> two weeks to finish getting our old place ready to be turned over. There
>> is no way I am traveling home any time soon.
>> 
>> And… there is the complications of my relationship with her. I had
>> always been really close to her. But… that disappeared over the last few
>> years. My guess is that my coming out factored into it, though she
>> denied that. That certainly changes the emotions I am feeling around
>> this.
>> 
>> As for Mom's condition, as well as cancer, there is necrotizing
>> fasciitis. Her doctor said Thursday evening that he didn't believe she
>> had any more than a week left, and that the only thing they can do for
>> her at this point is to keep her pain at bay. This morning's message was
>> that she is no longer eating or drinking by mouth. And that yesterday,
>> she did not speak to anyone, sleeping most of the time. It sounds close
>> enough that each time I see my a family member's name in one of my
>> inboxes, I am expecting it to be The News.
>> 
>> So prayers, please, that she moves from this life in peace and in as
>> little pain as possible. Prayers for my family who have gathered there.
>> And prayers for me, as I navigate my complicated reaction from afar.
>> 
>> Kristin
>> 
>> -- 
>>  Kristin Rollins
>>  kristin at verumsolum.com
>>  Chesapeake, VA