Hi, everyone my name is Roberta. A little about myself,well I am 19 years old born and raised here in Jacksonville,Florida I have 4 sisters (2 older,2 younger) and 1 brother (older). I have a wonderful husband of 4 years and a beautiful daughter named Destiny who just turned 3 in August YAY!!
I pretty much had a rough childhood,never knew my biological father but had a few father figures over the years. When I was 11 years old me,my brother and our two younger sisters were taken away from my mother and placed in foster care where we were moved from home to home for about 2 1/2 years.
In January 2007 we were finally reunited with my loving mother.We had a good life after that.But shortly after getting home,about 4 months or so later,my mother told us she was diagnosed with COPD and the doctors gave her 5 years to live and gave her 24/7 oxygen.We were devistated and did not expect what shortly followed.In October of that year in the early morning when I went to take my mother her morning coffee she was unresponsive and rushed to the emergency room where she was placed on life support.After being on a ventilator for 1 1/2 weeks my mother finally came too and was breathing on her own.This was a hard time for my family since all we had was us 6 kids lonely and afraid that the only person we knew in this world could be taken from us anytime.for about another week my mother was observed in the hospital then released to come home.
My mother still needed a caregiver which I took upon myself to be,but overall she was doing well.Until a year later when she was readmitted and place once again on life support.This time she struggled and was in the intensive care unit for 5 weeks. We waited patiently everyday holding onto that little bit of hope that this was just another obstical my mother would overcome. Like always my fighting mother pulled through and came home to us once again.
My mother always tried her best to provide for us children and she did the best any single parent with six children could.She had some major back problems and was placed on a medication called "Oxycotin" which she became very dependant on. Over the years I watched this drug slowly tear my mother down.While the medication helped my mother with her pain it was also supressing her breathing which made it more difficult for her.
Us children loved our mother but hated to see her suffer. My mother was a strong woman and never stopped fighting for us. On july,17th.2012 my mother was readmitted into memorial hospital. The doctors told us they didnt think she would make it through the night and was suprised that she was still breathing.Suprisingly yet like always my mother lived for another 2 weeks. The whole time she was on and off of lifesupport and never sudated. She couldn't speak,drink,eat and could barley think straight.The day she passed away my mother signed a do not resusitate order. We knew my mother was ready to go and tierd of fighting. We were afraid yet positive about my mother's desicion and didn't want her to pass alone. My siblings and I sat next to her bed prayed and held my mother's hands as her blood pressure began to drop and it became harder for her to breathe. we ordered the nurse to give her something to comfort her and she did. My mother didn't look like she was in pain for the first time in my life. As my mother's blood pressure began dropping lower by the minute we knew the time was near and that she would rest peacefully soon. Though I wasn't ready for my mother to go I stood by her like I always had. After watching her struggle to breathe for almost an hour my mother's heartbeat faded away and she looked at me and took her last breathe.
R.I.P Mama we love you so much!
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