I haven't posted on  here in several weeks and wanted to let ya'll  know that 
I am still around. My mom passed away 3 weeks ago. She had  developed a bowel 
blockage and went in for surgery which went well and she was  up walking and 
had started eating when we had a bad exposure which may have  caused her 
decline. She had an accident and the nurse came in to clean it up and  sprayed 
ammonium cloride cleaning solution quick profusely in the room. I  immediately 
went into respiratory distress and ended up in the ER. My mom  started having 
respiratory problems about 2 hours, it worsen and she coded at  2AM. They 
resusitated her and she coded again and was resusitated again. She  went to ICU and 
every organ just stopped working. She was taken off life support  6 days later. 
I have been battling secondary respiratory incidences  since  then. I have 
been on big doses of prednisone so I am also battling the side  effects of that. 
 The hospital told me not to return since they couldn't  guarantee a safe 
environment for me to visit my mom ( because of my latex  allergy) so I was not 
able to be with my family or say goodbye to my  mother.
I had about 2500 emails and have just deleted most. I hope everyone had a  
great time at the conferences and learned something new to share with their  
community. I had hoped to attend the LLLI conference with my daughter and  
grandson but had to cancel those plans when I found out my mom was having  surgery.
While cleaning out some of my mom's things, I found tons of letters. She  had 
saved every letter and card she had ever received. I am going to make a  
scrapbook with them but it will take a very long time. One set of letters that I  
found was written when she was pregnant with my older brother and my dad was 
in  the Navy. The thoughts, fears, and concerns were the same ones I felt while 
 pregnant with my first child, and also many that my daughter voiced while  
pregnant with her first ( although my daughter didn't write letters-it was  
mostly email and cell phones) It was really interesting to see the common thread  
thoughout the generations. And the baby care book from 1946 had good pretty  
breastfeeding information. At least they encouraged it and warned of the 
dangers  of substitute milk. 
I have tons of letters and cards to go through over the next months. While  I 
was used to be upset that my mother was a packrat, I now am glad she saved 
the  cards and letters. They certainly are a treasure.
 
Barbara Whitehead, BS, IBCLC, RLC
eastern NC

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