EDUC 337 Week # 4

Hello group!

     I really wish I would have known we were going to use this particular subject for our blog post because I have one heck of a "I did not get my way" story.  I will start in 2012 when I got out of the Marine Corps, I served 13 years, took that summer off to relax and hang out with my son.  I started my college adventure that fall, I loaded up on classes and pushed through to complete my associates degree after four semesters.  I had my daughter in January of 2014 so I was only in one class for that spring semester but was able to push through to more courses that summer and fall.  Spring of 2015, I was almost finished with my education courses I needed but this is when everything fell apart.
     I was rocking and rolling toward my bachelors degree and finishing all of my schooling, so excited and could not wait to start teaching.  It all changed that Mother's day with a phone call from my mother in law (Linda), she decided that day she was going to sleep in so she did not call until later in the day.  Calling my phone to wish me a happy mother's day, she decided to tell me during that call she had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and was not going to fight the cancer.  Okay so now what else could go wrong?  My husband and I decided that the kids and I should go visit her in June after school was out for the spring semester.  We all went to visit her and we found out that she was going to stay at home on hospice for her final days.  We were told she could not be left alone but she kept insisting that she was fine.  I was not having that so yes the kids and I stayed to take care of her until her last day on August 15, 2015.  During all of this with Linda, my husband receives orders to California the state for him to report (he was still active duty Marine Corps at this time) October 1, 2015.  Really, with everything else we had going on we had to move again and CA at that; okay so let's go!  Did not get my way to start schooling back up at all but I make the choice to put her last days as comfortable as I could.
     We are still getting settled in at our new house in CA, got my son all ready to start school and making sure everyone was as happy as could be until I got the phone call.  Due to the time difference between MO and CA, it was about 6:30 am, I got a call from my mother---she had just left the ER after being told she had a possible cancerous mass on her right lung.  She was officially diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer but was determined to fight the cancer and kick some butt.  She started treatment immediately and had weekly radiation start in February after she was diagnosed (2016).  My daughter and I came to MO to help with her appointment.  It was a rough three months but we made it through it.  My husband and son came to visit for a week or so during this time and that is when we found our forever home that we live in now.  Yes, we moved again from CA to MO in May of 2016 and during mid June my mother was told she had exhausted all means of treatment so she went on hospice care to spend her final days at home.  On August 7, 2016 I received the call from my step brother that she had passed away at 5:40 am.  Still not getting my way with being able to finish my schooling but I was enrolled (here at Columbia) and ready to continue.  It was a very difficult two years but we did make it through it all!