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- Mom was diagnosed with mylenoma (cancer of the blood) in February of 2 006 and started kemo therapy in March of that year. She continue on th e treatments until late October of 2006. The kemo took the strength fr om her but, tests indicated that the blood was now ok. She was not up t o par from that time on, her body being so weak and she also had lost w eight and looked very weak and fragile. Her and Dad did not even want C hristmas that year and when Rita and I went to visit on Christmas day, w e brought a small Christmas tree with us and decorations. They were bo th very surprised and pleased that we thought of them and insisted that t hey have a good Christmas. She continued to be weak into early 2007 by J une of 2007 found herself in the hospital again. After being there a f ew weeks she lost her ability to walk and they gave her a walker and ga ve her physical therapy for many other areas to include using her arms, l egs and hands. She went home just a week before Ashley's wedding to To m in late July but was unable to make the trip to attend the wedding, e ven though she wanted to be there very much since Ashley and she had be en so close over the years. Two weeks later, she went back to the hosp ital to have some follow on tests and told the doctors about her inabil ity to walk and her falling at the house. The doctors asked her to go t o the Emergency room again to be checked and they checked her into the T aunton Nursing Home located on Norton Ave in Taunton. She was in the N ursing home (although she did not like it there at all) until the secon d week in January 2008 at which time we were able to move her and Dad ( explanation for Dad in Dad notes) into the Marion Manner Nursing home o n Spring Streeet in Taunton Ma. She continued to loose strength in the T aunton Nursing home and also in the Marion Mannor. When entering the M arion Mannor, she could not feed herself or care for herself. This sit uation continued and when I went to visit her on the Sunday of the 27th o f January 2008, I guessed I would not be able to speak to her again. S o it was, as she passed on the following Wednesday evening at approxima tely 10:30 at night in her bed in the nursing home. Her calling hours w ere held at the Crapo-Hathaway funeral home in Taunton from 4 - 7PM on F riday February the 1st, and the funeral was held at the West Congregati oinal Church at 10AM Saturday morning and interment was the Westville c emetary. The family and friends met to share a meal and support at the W est Church parish hall at 11:30 Saturday.
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1928 - 2008 (79 years)
