Mansfield has a hospital called Desoto Regional has been there since the early 1960s so my parents felt the town was a little secure for my granny just in case she gets sick. After for so long my granny started getting ill she had cancer and the doctors just couldn’t do anything for her anymore. So she went to see her angels on Thursday, April 11, 1999 at LSU Medical Center in Shreveport,LA . Thing wasn’t the same anymore so my parents just moved to from Mansfield to Shreveport,LA and still here
On my second interview with my grandmother I had the honor of reading her a poem Nurse and Peron (Touhy, Jett, 2010, p.350). While reading to my 97 year old grandmother I happened to look over at her. I felt and saw a sense of sadness. Even though my grandmother never personally experienced Alzheimer's disease, she had close friends that had succumb to the illness. Growing up I remember my grandfather passing away at the young age of 60, although he did not pass from Alzheimer's disease, he did battle with a chronic illness that left him debilitated.
Boston – Edgar Allan Poe, 40, born January 19, 1809, passed away on October 7, 1849. He passed away at the hospital, for an unexplainable death took place. He preceded his death by his mother, Elizabeth Poe, Foster Mother Rosalie, wife Virginia Clemm. David and Elizabeth Poe had three children Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie. Unfortunately, for the family of siblings, David Poe passed away in 1805 as well as Elizabeth passed away at the age of 21 in 1811.
Case Study (Mrs. B) Mrs. B is a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher who was in excellent health prior to suffering a stroke three days previously. Her physician has on file in her medical record a living will, which she wrote out some ten years before. At that time she had indicated that, should she ever suffer a stroke of any sort, she would not want to be saved. She had watched her mother live as an invalid for about four years in a nursing home after sustaining a stroke. Mrs. B wanted to be sure she would never be exposed to such an indignity nor constitute such a burden on others.
That will help them spend their remaining time carefully, and they don’t have doubts during the rest of the life. After reading this article, I have remembered my grandmother. She had cataract when she was fifty. Once I met that she could not catch a cup of water. I have told my parents immediately.
When Dorothea was 7 years old she was seriously affected by polio that led to have a permanent limp, and having a lonely childhood. Her dad left her and her mother and he vanished from their lives and she never saw him again. Her real name was not Dorothea Lange but it was really Dorothea Nutzhorn she change it because she wanted a new beginning. She marry two times the first was Maynard Dixon but she divorced him then she married Paul Schuster Taylor. What you may not know about Lange is that she the one that took the most famous photographs about the Great Depression.
Araceli was a maid for Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson. After Scott and Maureen had a fight they both left the house leaving Araceli with their two boys. Araceli spent time looking for someone she could give the boys to until their parents returned. Araceli stated, “Of all these people, old man Torres was the only adult still alive and likely to live in a place reachable from Paso Linda Bonita” (147). Being gone for a few days the parents left Araceli with no other choice than to go and find the children’s grandfather.
Her father was an alcoholic who was disowned by his family (Women). Her mother Anna Roosevelt, sometimes called “Granny” because of her old-fashion style, was somewhat distant to her family (Women). When her mother died in 1892 because of diphtheria, she moved in with her maternal grandmother, Mary Ludlow Hall (Roosevelt History). In 1894 when she was ten, her father, whom she rarely ever saw passed because of alcoholism (Roosevelt Bio). When she was sent off to school in England to enroll at Allenwood Academy, she went in a shy and awkward child, but when she was taken under the wing of the headmistress of the academy, Mlle.
She was very private about her pregnancies. Before giving birth, she would say to Bessie and Sadie, “Now take the little ones…and don’t come back all day.” After the death of her husband Henry in 1928, Mama moved to New York with her daughters Sadie and Bessie. Bessie retired in 1950 in order to care for Mama, now frail but “still full of spunk, right up to the end” (Delany, Hearth 255). Mama died on June 2nd, 1956 at the age of 95. To partly get over Mama’s death, the daughters bought a house in Mount Vernon, New York, where they would spend their days honoring her
It is because of this disconnection between them and their reunion that the song lyrics that the narrator recalls his mother singing: “Lord, you brought me from a long way off” (422), relates to the story. Although they have not seen each other for a year before Sonny’s arrest, the narrator and Sonny have been emotionally disconnected from each other since childhood. The seven years age difference and the way they have handled their mother’s death being part of the problem. However, despite their separation they have managed to find each other and understand each other after having gone so far off from the path they started on. The songs or hymns lyrics “Tis the old ship of Zion...it has rescued many a thousand” (425) that the narrator hears outside his window as he is about to search sonny’s room, relates to both the narrator and Sonny.