Nova – What personal support was most helpful to you?

As we were discovering the things that I would have to do—fixing the house, insurance, how much the bills were and everything— all I did was feel like a burden. And a part of me just said, “Boy, it probably would have been easier if I had not make it through the surgery, then you get a good life insurance policy, you can pay off bills.” My 17 year old granddaughter said, “It would be disastrous without you mama.” So it was that encouragement from all that love that I realized it would be very cruel to the people I love so much to not want to live. It’s one thing to sort of take it on yourself, but that’s selfish, very selfish, and I really had a moral obligation to fight for the people who would fighting for me and loving me so much.