Mental Health Support

Some interesting advice from a hospice nurse as I sat alone in the final hours with my sister as my mother and younger sister failed to show up at the bedside. I had worried for four years how I would handle being in the same room with those two at such an emotional time. An hour before my sister died I had to physically call them and say they needed to get a move on. They told me they were in line at a restaurant, hungry and needed to eat!! I hang up and as I did my ill sister’s breathing changed for the worse. I sat beside her repeating ‘ I don’t know what to do. Do I call them back. I don’t know.’ The nurse who had heard my end of the conversation and had access to the notes revealing that those two had been MIA FOR 19 hours came over to me and said,’Hope there is one thing you need to know. No matter what you do, it will be the wrong thing!’ I have lived by these words for the last nine years. Honor yourself. Keep boundaries that protect you. We can’t change these people or what they think of us! We can’t control what they say about us to others. Live your life. You deserve a peaceful existence. Love and peace to you. 💗💗💐🙏🏼