Mother

Photo curtusy of Kirby Urner

My mother was Dawn Wicca. She was a force of nature and an amazing woman. She was diagnosed 3 years ago with Inflammatory Breast Cancer. If you have breasts you need to know about this. Even Men can get this and it is very serious. Here are two good orginazations that es that explain what IBC is: American Cancer Soceity also National Cancer Institute


She went through the normal mastectomy and then radiation and chemotherapy. Then almost a year latter after we all hoped it was gone. But then in my mothers words "You can not prove a negitive. It had metastasised to her bones and lungs, roughly 6 months later it then metastasised to her Brain and Galblatter and maybe her liver.

On March 11, 2007 I was first notified of the beginning of the end. On March 13, 2007 I flew to Oregon and waited on my mothers deathbed. On March 17, 2007 at aprox. 12:30am my mother passed away. Kirby has written so wonderful blogs about my mothers passing and the events afterwards: Saturday March 17, 2007 Praying for Dawn, which was written the day of her death and has her obituary also March 20, 2007 Dust to Dust. He is my stepfather and the photographic cronicler of my life after the age 12.

Mom approached death in a way I had never seen before. I am sure that she was afraid of it but she faced it head on and embraced the process. She want to experience it. I don't think I will ever understand it complietly but I hope I do understand it when its my term to pass.

I believe she died the way she wanted to. She did not want to be alone. Amazingly there were a large amount of people who paid there respects and stayed and comforted her. I was so amazed.



Her memoral service, which was wonderful thanks to many great people, was attended by over 250 -300 people. I know my mother would have appriecated it.

I have been experiencing the stages of greiving. I miss her daily and there isn't an hour that goes by that I do not think about her.