January 26, 2024 10:00 AM
Hiroko Takahashi
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
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Last week, I had the opportunity to interact with the entirety of my social network. It’s funny how we think of social network messages as trivial things. Of all the threads and stories, the latest social network threads will be the most memorable for me. It’s like a water drop sending ripples in a still pond.
My mother passed away last Friday. It was just my wife and I that knew she had passed from dementia. I didn’t think she would be gone so soon. She had been diagnosed for perhaps eight years.
She declined rapidly and lost her ability to walk. She no longer recognized me around 11 months ago. I remember once considering moving my mother to a home far from me but close to her sister. But my cousin said to me, “You are the world to her.” Too quickly that changed to the reality that she had forgotten me.
On the day she died, I visited my mother and thought she was going to still be there the next day. After I got the call, I returned at night to the place, and the caretakers offered me condolences as I arrived for a grim confirmation.
My mother back in 2017 in Sacramento. Moving day.