My Journey With Helping My Mom Die in Peace

and the challenges of getting appropriate medical care

Michelle Jaqua
The Virago
Published in
9 min readFeb 5, 2022

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Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash

The Week Prior

I’d gotten a call from my stepdad — I’ll call him John — that my Mom wasn’t doing very well. She’d been bedridden for a week (or two?), had stopped eating, was drinking very little water, and was more confused than usual.

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Michelle Jaqua
The Virago

Advocate for Women / Owner of Lipedema and Me and The Virago