Posted: May 7, 08 1:31pm

I just joined this site and decided to see if anyone here is from Connecticut. As I said in my profile, my mother died the other day(May 5th) and she was all I had, and now I'm alone. Sure I have my dog and cat, but the conversations are one sided. I'm a chronic diabetic and get disability because of the complications from it. My whole life has been devoted to my parents- and being an only child, I don't have anyone else to lean on. My house seems so lonely without my mother. She was 81 and had a lot of medical problems( diabetic too). I brought her to the hospital Friday night, because when I helped her in bed and turned up her oxygen, she went limp, and I thought she died then. I ran and called 911 and screamed at her at the same time. She came out of it like in 30 seconds, so I thought she was having some kind of seizure, but as time went by, it didn't seem the same. They said she had pneumonia( how she got it is beyond me, since I didn't take her out all winter) They said on Sunday she could go home for mother's day, then Monday she seemed sleepy and not herself. I find out later they gave her meds too late. To make a long story short, it didn't appear to me they were going to be able to do anymore, and after talking to our doctor,I knew what my mother wanted- she said it over and over - to die in her bed. I argued with the doctors, and they signed her out and she got home and an hour and a half later died. I've been crying for so long and so lonely without her. I suffer depression from my condition, and this makes it worse. I just want some friends- since taking care of my parents wasn't something people would do, I don't have any left anymore.

I'm sorry if I bored anyone with my preamble,Thank you for listening. God Bless you all.