VIVIAN
“I’m too busy to go to the doctor for a follow up appointment.”
Those words would come back to haunt Vivian.
It was early March 1964, six weeks since her yearly exam when her doctor told her he felt an abnormality on her ovaries. “Come back in six weeks for a follow up appointment.” She shrugged off the doctor.
She was working in a clothing factory, tending to her family, and planning for her daughter’s wedding in September. Her and her husband Sam wanted to go to Italy to celebrate their Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary in 1965.
Soon a heaviness in her lower abdomen progressed to severe pain.
An immediate visit to the doctor showed that the abnormality had grown.
He advised her to see a specialist for further treatment.
From that day on her life became a
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They were somewhat comforted that she was not suffering but the pain of losing her was unbearable.
She was calm and in total control of her senses.She heard their loving words, saw their quiet smiles,felt the soft caresses of her transparent hands. She could not taste their hidden tears. They would regret leaving her that night for the rest of their lives.
Early the next morning she was alone when she died peacefully in her sleep.
She was forty-one years old.
Vivian was our beloved and most cherished mother.
At the time of her death I,her daughter,was twenty-one years old. Her son was twenty-four. Sam was forty-nine. He suffered in his grief and could not tolerate the quietness of his home. Lonely, he eventually met someone and remarried.
At the time of his death he was ninety-five years old.
Our mother is buried in a Catholic cemetery.On her headstone her name is engraved next to that of our father.Our father is buried in a different cemetery. On his headstone his present wife’s name is engraved next to his.
In death as in her final moments of life, our mother is