Ginger – How did family members respond to the news?

My family was, of course, very concerned, and, when I had my accident, and very supportive. My husband took time off of from work and was, in fact he didn’t go to work for a month or more, he was at the hospital with me all the time. My parents were there every day, my children had different reactions. My two older children—my son of course was concerned, he kind of couldn’t understand how I could deal with it. He was, because he saw me in worst stages of the hospital, and he’d say, “Mom, you’ve got so much going on, so many bells and whistles, and monitors, and things going in and tubes going in and out of your body, how do you do it?” And my response was, “Well, you know, you’re not old enough for me to leave you, to leave you, I still need to be here to see you grow up.” My daughter, my next one down, my daughter was wonderful. She left college and came home, not permanently but every chance that she could, and she kind of became my mother, and took very good care of me. My youngest daughter was 14 at the time, and I think she didn’t know what had hit her, she was pretty devastated. She and I were very close, and I think she felt that she’s had lost a mother. And as a 14-year-old, you know a young teenager, what she thinking about?—me, me, me, and, right? And she said things like, “mom, who’s, who’s going to go to parent-teacher conferences? You can’t. ” You know and, “mom who’s going to…” what was her, “who’s going to help me with my homework?”—and, “who’s going to go out to lunch with my girlfriends’ mothers?” And I had to answer, I mean these, and oh, “who’s going to take me shopping for clothes?” So, I had to answer each of those questions, to what I hoped would be her satisfaction, but to reassure her that I was still her mother.