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Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye

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This is the story of my mother and father and my dashing, bachelor uncle, my father?s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. And it?s the story of the journey from one twin?s death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself.

My story takes the reader through the journey of the end of life: selling the family home, re-location at a retirement community, doctor?s visits, ER visits, specialists, hospitalizations, ICU, nursing homes, Hospice. It takes the reader through the gauntlet of the health care system with all the attendant comedy and sorrows, joys and terrors of such things. Finally it asks: what consolation is there in growing old, in such loss? What abides beyond the telling of my own tale? Wisdom carried from the end of the journey to readers who are perhaps only beginning theirs. Still, what interest in reading of this inevitable journey taken by such ordinary people? Turned to the light just so, the beauty and laughter of the telling transcend the darkness of the tale.

During the final revisions of this book, my husband was dying of cancer, and he died before I could finish it. What I know so far is this: how pure love becomes when it is distilled through such suffering and loss?a blue flame that flickers and pulses in the deepest heart.

As I finish this book he is gone three months.

Language: English

Pages: 255

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 23, 2009

ISBN 13: 9780870745553

Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye

0/5 ( ratings)

This is the story of my mother and father and my dashing, bachelor uncle, my father?s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. And it?s the story of the journey from one twin?s death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself.

My story takes the reader through the journey of the end of life: selling the family home, re-location at a retirement community, doctor?s visits, ER visits, specialists, hospitalizations, ICU, nursing homes, Hospice. It takes the reader through the gauntlet of the health care system with all the attendant comedy and sorrows, joys and terrors of such things. Finally it asks: what consolation is there in growing old, in such loss? What abides beyond the telling of my own tale? Wisdom carried from the end of the journey to readers who are perhaps only beginning theirs. Still, what interest in reading of this inevitable journey taken by such ordinary people? Turned to the light just so, the beauty and laughter of the telling transcend the darkness of the tale.

During the final revisions of this book, my husband was dying of cancer, and he died before I could finish it. What I know so far is this: how pure love becomes when it is distilled through such suffering and loss?a blue flame that flickers and pulses in the deepest heart.

As I finish this book he is gone three months.

Language: English

Pages: 255

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 23, 2009

ISBN 13: 9780870745553

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