My sister Theresa died yesterday. She had been in intensive care in the hospital for about a week. About 3 years ago when COVID-19 was first being detected in the United States, my sister developed an autoimmune viral infection that sent her to the hospital. It was not COVID but they did not know what it was. After normal treatments didn’t work, they loaded her up with all the antibiotics they could find. This kept her alive but unfortunately it caused her kidneys to fail. Since then she had been on home dialysis.
Things started getting worse from there. All of her systems started cascading one against the other and even overwhelming amounts of medication could not stabilize her physical condition.
About a year ago a team of doctors decided to do cataract surgery for her eyes. All 15 doctors had to have their input, they all decided it was a good thing to do. After the surgery her eyes improved for a little bit until she developed an infection in her eyes. This was caused by something we all have in our eyes already but we can fight it off. She could not, so for weeks after weeks after weeks she would have to go in and have them inject medicine into her eye and drain the fluid caused by the infection. Her eyesight kept diminishing.
After a stroke and some seizures about a month ago she had difficulty recovering. In mental decline now she could not remember a lot of day to day details.
Her lungs were always the weak link even with all of this, and she developed pneumonia last week. Along with her other lung disease problems and progressive infections, we sent her to the emergency room. In ICU, when the doctor came into tell us that she did not have long to live and recommended discontinuing dialysis treatments, unfortunately the hospital doctor decided to put in a port in her chest for dialysis. This was completely unnecessary surgery and they took her into surgery the next day to remove it! The next day they moved her to hospice care where she died in the afternoon.
I have been lucky to know a lot of strong women in my life. My mother and my sister may be top among them. My sister was way stronger than I am and I am glad that the struggle is over.
MidiMike 
I’m sorry about your loss. It is strength that pulls us though the tough times… for our loved ones too. Praying for you and your family.
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I am so very sorry for your loss. Many prayers for you and your family.
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I’m so sorry for your loss and all your sister had to endure.
May she smile down on you with happiness, carefree and you knowing her strength now lives within you ❤️
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I’m so sorry for your loss. Sending prayers to you and your family.
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Sorry for your loss. You and yours are in my prayers.
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Such a strength in the rythm of your Prose. Yo have that Power of your Family that you wrote about. It must be within you. Am sorry for your Löss. ‘Tho I dont know you, this Post Made me feel Close to the situation.
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I do apologize for my delay in response. I am finally getting back to normal. I really appreciate your comment and your thoughts. My sister was a great woman and she left a positive impression on everyone she met. Thank you so much for your thoughts and your comments.
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I’m so sorry for your loss, Mike. My condolences to your family.
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My condolences to you and your family Mike. I understand the pain we go through when losing loved ones. I have been living away from family for 21 years and have seen so many family members leave this selfish world to be with angels in heaven. With time we all get healed. The thing that keeps us going in the support of family and friends. Take care Mike. Thank you for liking my posts and comments
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Thank you for your thoughts and for sharing your experiences. My sister was dealing with more than I could possibly handle in the last year of her life. So we are already relieved that the pain has stopped.
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I am so sorry for your loss. I hope your memories of your sister can sustain you through your grief.
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You are wonderful. I appreciate your thoughts and concern. It is hard to feel grief in the normal way. Her last couple of years were close to medical torture.
Continuing would have caused grief. Thank you so much for your thoughts.
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You’re welcome. Hugs.
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The best medicine ever!
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I’m so sorry for your loss. May your sister rest in peace.
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Awwww, thank you. The last few months were torture for her so I am grateful she is at rest now. Thank you for your concern and your thoughts. I really appreciate it.
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I pray that you can find the collateral beauty that will grow in the empty space left behind by such an important pillar in your life.
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Thank you so much for your concern and warm thoughts. My sister was a strong woman. She had more strength than I could imagine ever possessing. Thank you for your time, I do appreciate your post.
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No problem. I just saw everyone repeating the sincere but generic “Sorry for your loss” and I just wanted to say something more thoughtful. My own sister was pivotal in surviving my 17 year ordeal. She was my rock. When they asked me about her at my parole hearing I broke down. Sisters, man! they are somethin else.
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Dear MidiMike,
Congratulations to you on having your original acoustic rock album entitled “Before The Chase” published at iTunes and CD Baby.
I concur with Mr Zakaria Amara. Your post has touched me deeply and rendered me pensive, as I can resonate and empathize with your reflections on life and your enduring memory of your late sister Theresa through your observation of her mortality in general and her debilitating conditions in particular.
Insofar as one never ceases to love and miss those who had featured so much in our lives in many endearing ways, I would like to express my condolences to you. A special acknowledgement is also due to you for your expressing so commendably well regarding the lingering thoughts and feelings concerning your sister’s pain and suffering brought by sickness and treatments. Likewise, I still miss my late mother very dearly every day of my life, given that I have had a very close relationship with my late mother, as can be witnessed in my very detailed, multipronged and poignant examination of mortality and filiality in my expansive post entitled “Khai & Khim: For Always and Beyond Goodbye“, which has been composed as something very significant for posterity in the form of a very special multimedia eulogy-cum-memoir-cum-biography. You can easily locate this post from the Home page of my blog. As a musician, you may be very interested to learn that the post also contains my original musical compositions dedicated to my mother. In addition, it even includes her wedding video, something that was quite rare in the 1960s.
May you find the new season of 2024 very much to your liking and highly conducive to your composing, midi-sequencing, publishing, writing, reading, thinking and blogging whatever topics that appeal to your intellectual exploration and musical creativity!
Wishing both you and Zakaria a productive and fruitful March doing or enjoying whatever that satisfies you the most, whether aesthetically, physically, intellectually or spiritually!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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Thank you so much. I truly appreciate your comments, as many of us share similar losses.
The sharing begins the healing process for many.
You will do well in this world.
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I can understand from your post that you loved her…how fortunate you were to have someone that special that you loved. Sisters are special. I too have lost a sister. Praying that you are comforted in your grief. Thank you for sharing.
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