I didn’t realize that it had been December that I had last posted. It really wasn’t intended, but life happens. And, death happens too. In late March, my mom had what we discovered was a small stroke. No big deal, right? It affected her speech a little, but a week later it threw a blood clot. Once her doctor discovered that, she didn’t like what she saw, so they sent her for some scans. In mid April, mom was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer. Two weeks after that, she had another, more thorough scan, and they confirmed the diagnosis, and she had another small stroke which put her back…