My Aunt Thelma Has ‘Gone Home’
May 5th, 2009 — inspirationspeaker
This is a photo of me, Aunt Thelma and my daughters that was taken a few years ago.
Excerpts from the Epilogue of the book, “You Don’t Know Crazy”: My Aunt Thelma, my mother’s sister, is 95 years young. She was diagnosed with colon cancer about five years ago. She refused to have surgery and all other invasive medical treatment. According to all of her medical documentation, she should have died a few years ago. However, she still lives alone in the senior citizen complex, flirts with the roadside vegetable sellers, can walk faster than I can, and is teaching me an invaluable lesson about living and dying on your own terms. *****
Aunt Thelma passed over on May 4th, 2009. In her final days, she was happy and at peace with the decisions she’d made concerning her health and last days of this incarnation. She also said she was happy to have lived to see a black man be President of the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
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