Grandma Jane, my mom, was widely loved by her family, friends and community. She lived and worked in Richmond KY for the past 3 decades, which was half her life, creating bonds and lifelong family friends of hers and her children's. In January of 2022 mom suffered a brain aneurysm leading to surgery and a long rehabilitation process at Cardinal Hill in Lexington KY. After months of difficult recovery mom returned to a mostly pre-injury lifestyle. However, as brain trauma inevitably goes mom was stricken with a second stroke in August of 2023. After undergoing an emergency procedure to stop the brain from bleeding mom was placed on life support. For two weeks we held onto hope but there was only decline in mom's health. My sister Ashly, brother in law Drew and myself were left with the difficult decision of providing palliative care until the end of life. This was overwhelming, shocking, and painful all at once. As brutally horrific the entire process was for my family personally I will forever be gratful to the crews of the hospital's we were in and out of over the past 2 years from the leading surgeon to the housekeeping that kept us all comfortable. It is not for mom that I personally want to raise funds for the American Heart Association but for the future families that must endure the hardships that we did. I would like to do my part to ensure that everyone be afforded the love and respect we were given during this time. And with this I ask that you support the AHA with a donation to their foundation. We cannot bring mom back but we can make it better for someone else in her remembrance.
Brian