P.L. Reid

​This eulogy was written 10 years ago.  Emphysema is a brutal disease; the dying lasts for years.

How ironic that, for the past 18 months, I’ve watched the two most important women in my life struggle with what would otherwise be an irrepressible reflex - breathing.  One woman, my mother, was in the late stages of emphysema, and the other, my daughter, has severe asthma. 

I was 43 years old when my Read more of this blog post »