They just left her there to die.........How do you forget your Mom?

Well there is absollutly no excuse for this,These people should be charged with elderly abuse. Someone should have been staying with this woman, or at least checking on her each day, calling her and so forth. Why did they not place her in the nursing home s the doctor said.were they getting her checks or something? This is very terriable.

I am the type of person who does not understand this type of neglect no easier then I can understand a mother hurting her baby...People get so caught up with their own life and turn very selfish...I took care of my grandmother who raised me until her last breath and have took care of other memebers of my family...How could anyone just neglect their own mother the woman who raised them is beyond me...It is sad...Just so sad...

If they wanted to save on the nursing home costs, they should have at least have one person move in with her. This is inexcusable. If the doctor recommended a nursing home, she was in no shape or form able to take care of herself.

This is inexcusable. Did anybody get charged with anything?

My mother was, to put it mildly a very difficult person to deal with especially the last year or so of her life...she was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 and she made it quite clear (and rather vocal) that she didn't want to go to a nursing home/rehab to get her nutrition built up and to get her chemo/radiation there...so she stayed home. She also adamantly refused any visiting nurse kind of arrangements...what was in her favor however, was the fact that I was still living with her until her dying day and was her caregiver...I became an instant round the clock nurse to her. And while we didn't get along (to put it mildly) at least I WAS there for her, took care of her, made sure she went to her doc appts. and took her meds. I too was in the hospital with her the day she "crashed"


As for the people who neglected their mother and left her lying there and looked like she had been lying on the floor for about two or three days? There actually is no excuse for not taking care of another human being. If anything, they should have at least made arrangements with neighbors to check in on her when they couldn't or wouldn't. Well what goes around comes around...maybe one day, they too will be in the exact same situation and left neglected like they neglected their mother

Oh that is just so awful, Thank God for the granddaughter going to visit but even then it was too late really. I really hope that these people can live with themselves for being so cruel. Ooooh this annoys me, how can they have been so callous. probably wanting her too to get their inheritance, obviously selfish monetary people rather than loving and caring. Poor woman to be left there like that. Ellie:D

Oh my, oh my!! That's really bad and I feel so sad just reading it. How could the person had the heart to do that...? Is that person a he or a she..? Doesn't she believe in the word what goes around come around? And does the person think that he or she won't have children someday and what if he/she is to be left to die like that.

I feel so sad right now. Mothers should be appreciated and even so because Mother's Day has passed and I just couldn't imagine the same thing happening to my mom. I would always cherish and will never neglect her. Moms are for forever keeps.

You are such a good person to take care of your love ones till their last breath. Such kindness of a heart, my friend.

For the life of me i just dont get it,my God that was there mother who rasied them fed them,and every thing that comes along with being a parent.Then when your parent need you oh what the h we dont give a crap,i woud have never have dreamed of ever doing any thing like that to any one in my family.One van only hope they cant sleep at night because his haunts them.Just awful.

This story is so heartbreaking hw.
I had to take care of my mother when she was sick, and i tried my best to make sure all of her needs were meet.
I can't understand why they didn't put her in a nursing home where she would have been properly looked after.In my country it's not uncommon to have your elders taken care of by family members.And i just can't see how anyone could just neglect their loved ones this way.I could not imagine what this lady went through for those few days, hurt and alone, this must have been a horrible experience for her.My mom was a very important part of my life and the love i had and still have for her is unending.I would have done anything for my mom.

hello hornswaggled,
that is so horrible, it breaks my heart to hear such story.
it reminds me of our landlady when i was a kid, she is very strict but we cared her as if she is our own grandma.
on her last days, she just cry a lot with my mom and says how sorry she is for treating us wrong and how she remembers us despite her Alzheimer's and NOW i read this and it all brings back such a sad story coz she was treated really bad.
anyway, i have the same feeling as you do wondering how can they do such thing. are they too far to visit her? if they dont want to place her in a nursing home then take care of her in their own home.
i wish she is my neighbor, so i can at least help her somehow.
i wish the late mom's kids will never experience such thing when they reach their old age.
too sad.
at least grandma is resting now, no need for her to worry and be sad at night.
takecare!

After my first hubs and I divorced I got word that his mother was ill and in the hospital. I took my kids down to see her and say good bye. A few days later the hospital called me again and said that they couldn't reach any direct family members and that the end was imminent. I went down there myself and sat with her for the next three days it took her to die, all the time talking to her kids and begging them to come see her. No one came, no one bothered to take the time out of their busy lives, and no one was there but me when she breathed her last. We didn't even like each other, but damned if I was going to let her die alone, and actually I'm glad I had that time with her. We made our peace and I consider myself blessed to have been able to ease her passing and make her smile. To ignore the needs of your own parent or relative is to me a guaranteed ticket to hell.