My Best Friend's Mom

[beachbum]

I found out last week that my best friend's mom passed away. This really bothered me. I've known her since I was 6 years old and she really was the mom I never had. She was also on dialysis. I just talked to her in September and I told her I was going to start dialysis soon. She had been on dialysis for a few years, and although she was 70 she seemed to be doing ok. She told me to call her anytime and she would help me through it. I had avoided telling her how bad my own health was the last few years, maybe because I was so afriad of dialysis myself.

Right before Thanksgiving my friend told me his mom was in the hospital but that the doctors were sending her home because there was nothing more they could do for her. I was praying she would recover. She was a wonderful person and will be missed dearly. RIP Doris. 

[okarol]

  So sorry for your loss.

[MooseMom]

In reading some of your other posts, I can understand why the death of your friend's mom would be particularly painful.  I am so sorry.

My own mother had an aortic aneurysm repaired, but in the process, her kidneys lost profusion and died, so she ended up on dialysis.  She dialyzed for 5 years before dying last year at 81.  I've known for quite some time that I, too, would end up on dialysis, but I never wanted to burden my mother with my fears because she had her own catastrophe to endure.  I wish I had had a "second mom" who had perhaps been less scorched by the ordeal and could have helped me cope.  Like you, maybe I was just too afraid of dialysis to even talk about it with her.  Now she is gone and so is Doris, along with the help and support they could have provided.

God, go with Doris.