Remembering Mom and the Last Beautiful Day

One perfectly beautiful late summer day my Mom and I took a walk just as we often did. For some reason on that day I decided to take a camera. Why I decided to I am not sure. Maybe because the day was so beautiful and I thought it would be nice to take some photos. For it was the type of day where you could easily be fooled into thinking nothing horrible could ever happen. Two weeks later my Mom was terribly ill and days later we would find out that she was suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer. For the next three months the days that followed were less than beautiful and I would forget about the photos I took that day. Shortly after my Mom lost the battle against cancer I stumbled upon that camera and those photos. I put together this little video using the photos from that last beautiful day. No day since has been as beautiful as that last beautiful day when my Mom and I went for a walk.

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[japawaiian]

lovely video :) i have a few videos on my account i made for my mother of whom i just lost to pancreatic cancer just a month ago on March 31st, 2010. Me and my mother were the best friends best friends could be. She raised me as a single mother in hawai'i and it was never easy for us but we always pulled through. She was an amazing person to everyone that got the opportunity to meet her :) I MISS YOU MOM!!

[augustrc8]

@japawaiian Thank you for watching and for commenting. I'm sorry that you too lost your Mom to pancreatic cancer. It's an awfully cruel and unkind disease. Hopefully soon they will find a cure so that no one will ever have to be lost to it again. It's hard to lose your mother especially when she is you best friend. Again, I'm so sorry.

[staffer11]

be strong my freind sprerad the word i hyave been diagnised with pancreatic cancer i am only 37 and i will leave 4 brilliant kids i have to be strong for my kids but it can be hard , with all the pain i take day by day . i dont know when i will go to meet my maker ,

[augustrc8]

I'm sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed to have pancreatic cancer. It won't be easy but try to be strong and don't give up hope. Please contact the Lustgarten Foundation and/or Cancer Treatment Centers of America. God bless.

[staffer11]

thanks for you reply just got out of hospital had a new metal stenetg put in it was so painfull life is hartd i am trying to sort out my life before i go but it can be hard ; i am spending as much time as posible with my kids and family thanks

[augustrc8]

I hope you are doing well. I know how hard it is. Enjoy as much time with your kids and family. In life, that's all that really matters.

[augustrc8]

Thank you. Like you, I too hope that other families will one day soon be spared the pain we and our loved ones have endured from this awful disease. Peace be with you.

[megansidol22]

These photos as well I'm sure as the feelings behind them are the sweetest things I have ever seen. As you know since you've seen my video I know only too well the terrible pain you are feeling I only wish that one day other families will be spared such horrible intense pain. My heart and prayers are with you, always...

[augustrc8]

Thank you for sharing this. Your words touched my heart. I know the heartache and the joy those pictures bring you. Your words came at an interesting moment in time - for the other day marked 25 months ago that I lost my Mom. She is always on my mind. And just as you do your mother, I know that 25 years from now I will - more and more - continue to miss my mother. Peace be with you.

[blacktoedferret]

My mother would run for cover when she saw a camera - she hated having her picture taken. In 1983 when she was 67 she and I took a week's vacation on the Isle of Man (UK) and for some reason she let me take lots of photographs. 18 weeks later she was dead - heart attack. Like you, I treasure the last pictures of my mother - we had such a lovely week together and I never saw her again. The pictures bring comfort, as I still miss her very much more than 25 years later. God bless you.