This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Patricia Haney, 67, born on February 19, 1948 and passed away on September 25, 2015. We will remember her forever.
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Leave a tributeIt has only been 6 weeks since you died but it seems so long ago. I got used to having you around me even though it was only six months that I took care of you. I had adapted to not seeing you very often over the years but I called you at least 3- 7 times a week. I find myself having the impulse to call you but I cant. I say your name out loud in hopes i will get a sign you are still with me.
The first month after you died I was numb and wondered what I could have done differently to keep you alive longer. The second month I was able to reflect and be grateful for the time we had although I wished it was longer.I find myself wishing I would have brought you to my home sooner. This past two week I cant even think any thoughts I just feel pain and sadness. I want it to stop. I tell myself it is normal to feel this way and it makes me mad.
I had gotten used to not having you in my life a long time ago. It was the only way I could deal with the issues you had that I felt made it impossible for me to be a part of your life.
And then the COPD you suffered with for 8 years finally got you. As well as the hell you put your body through with your addiction to prescription drugs.
But I had always hoped that if you ever got to a point that you could not care for yourself and could not make the choices that affected your life so negatively, that I could help you. And so in April of this year that time came.
I knew last July when I had went to GA for a visits that something had changed with your health. But when you were given 6 months to live for some reason that seemed like enough time for me to take care of you and mend all the time I had missed over the years of not being with you. The first two month of caring for you I wondered if I could do it. Mainly because I was still in GA with you. But when I brought you back to Cali with me and we got your medication working right, for the first time since I was very young I felt like I had the real you. We had hours of hanging out talking laughing. For so many years we could not do this because you were either under the influence of your meds or in withdrawal from them.
But, the last few months of your life were the best for me. And now these past two weeks I don't feel grateful, I feel pain because I wanted to save you just as I always had since I was a child and I couldn't.
Some people do not understand the love I had for you because of your history. But I have always understood why you were the way you were. And I have never doubted how much you loved me and how proud you were of me. You were a kind person in-spite of your addiction. You were a loving person. You were my Mama.
Go rest high up on your mountain, for your work on earth is done. I know you went to heaven a shoutin, you have reach the father and the son.
When my work on earth is done and my calling has come, I plan to meet
You and all the others over there. Your Loving Sister Juanita
RIP Patricia
Rest now Mama. I love you.
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Missing you
Today as I was cleaning and I cam upon your breathing medicnines and oxygen tubes.Of course i fell apart. But I want to remember how hard it was for you to breath so that I can take comfort in knowiing you no longer suffer with that. The only way for you to have comfort was to just sit and do nothing and even then it wa difficult. I know that you hated living this way. Trapped in your body that you know you destroyed with smoking. I want to honor you by taking care of my health. The last few week of your life you kept thinkng that I was smoking and told me that is how you got in the shape you were in. I neverr have smoked cigarettes mama and I never will. I love and miss you so much.
Meeting Ali
My Mom was so excited to meet her great grandaughter. When I had flown in from Cali in April to care for Mama the first thing she said to me was " Hey baby!". The seconds was " show me pictures of my beautful great grandchild"! When she got to meet my precious great niece she instantly fell in love.