What was your average day (probably) like on....
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In Toledo that probably is worth a 30 second segment halfway through the 11 o'clock news.
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I'm going to talk about how my family and I voted, and currently vote, for President but to be abundantly clear I'm not going to talk about any policy or positions. I'm really just trying to tell a family story but if I go out of bounds I get that posts need to be deleted sometimes. No harm no foul.
Election night 2008 was on 11.4.
Mary Ann died on on 11.6.08. Mary Koopman Obituary - FL
My whole life I knew her as a GOP voter but I more or less emulated her hippie younger years......when she was a kid she went to UPenn (so way smarter than me yet she didn't get her degree there). After UPenn she joined VISTA for a few years which is kinda like the US domestic Peace Corps. So she clearly was left as a younger woman.
Anyway in November '08 she was bedridden. We had a hospital bed in the middle of her condo.
I think I helped out with my dad when he was at the end but that was nothing compared to what he did for her. Like she couldn't get up. The bed had like balloons in it that would inflate and deflate at random times to prevent bed sores. She couldn't get up to do bathroom stuff so my dad took care of all that. I never had to do that for him.
Anyway she was super Catholic at this time. She'd pray the rosary every day watching the Catholic channel.
However she was on board with Obama. And I was so fervently for him in '08 I did like phone banks and shit. So he was the 1st Dem I saw her vote for in my entire life. It was cool for her to live just long enough for us to see and share that historic election together.
I was always told the story that when I was born the first thing she said to me was "You'll always love your mother". I was lucky enough to be there with her the moment she died. I got in bed beside her and as she died I told her, "I'll always love my mother".
And I lucked into that moment. It was the right time, right place situation. I had just finished an overnight work shift and was heading to their place as always when the hospice nurse called and said it was time to be with her......as I was in the hallway walking to their condo.
I lived with my dad for like 2+ years at his end and I missed that moment with him and it makes me sad. While super sad, it's a beautiful, great last memory I have with my mom.
Fuck this random date generator sucks.
The kinda funny thing is that after she died my dad who voted GOP along with her his whole life all of a sudden became a Dem. I'm convinced he just went along with her to avoid any trouble. Mary Ann was the alpha of the Koopman family. I'm sure my dad was like, "After the shit I've been through you think either of these parties seem so bad to me? I'll just go along with my wife". And while I was all about Obama and so happy she voted for him.....after she was dead and Obama served both his terms I became MAGA. So it's kinda funny how once our matriarch was gone both my dad and I did a 180 in terms of our political views. It took me a little longer. For Hendrik it was like 2 weeks later hahah.
I just think it's a cute story. I'm not trying to push any side's agenda. I just want to bookend this post with that to be abundantly clear.
Election night 2008 was on 11.4.
Mary Ann died on on 11.6.08. Mary Koopman Obituary - FL
My whole life I knew her as a GOP voter but I more or less emulated her hippie younger years......when she was a kid she went to UPenn (so way smarter than me yet she didn't get her degree there). After UPenn she joined VISTA for a few years which is kinda like the US domestic Peace Corps. So she clearly was left as a younger woman.
Anyway in November '08 she was bedridden. We had a hospital bed in the middle of her condo.
I think I helped out with my dad when he was at the end but that was nothing compared to what he did for her. Like she couldn't get up. The bed had like balloons in it that would inflate and deflate at random times to prevent bed sores. She couldn't get up to do bathroom stuff so my dad took care of all that. I never had to do that for him.
Anyway she was super Catholic at this time. She'd pray the rosary every day watching the Catholic channel.
However she was on board with Obama. And I was so fervently for him in '08 I did like phone banks and shit. So he was the 1st Dem I saw her vote for in my entire life. It was cool for her to live just long enough for us to see and share that historic election together.
I was always told the story that when I was born the first thing she said to me was "You'll always love your mother". I was lucky enough to be there with her the moment she died. I got in bed beside her and as she died I told her, "I'll always love my mother".
And I lucked into that moment. It was the right time, right place situation. I had just finished an overnight work shift and was heading to their place as always when the hospice nurse called and said it was time to be with her......as I was in the hallway walking to their condo.
I lived with my dad for like 2+ years at his end and I missed that moment with him and it makes me sad. While super sad, it's a beautiful, great last memory I have with my mom.
Fuck this random date generator sucks.
The kinda funny thing is that after she died my dad who voted GOP along with her his whole life all of a sudden became a Dem. I'm convinced he just went along with her to avoid any trouble. Mary Ann was the alpha of the Koopman family. I'm sure my dad was like, "After the shit I've been through you think either of these parties seem so bad to me? I'll just go along with my wife". And while I was all about Obama and so happy she voted for him.....after she was dead and Obama served both his terms I became MAGA. So it's kinda funny how once our matriarch was gone both my dad and I did a 180 in terms of our political views. It took me a little longer. For Hendrik it was like 2 weeks later hahah.
I just think it's a cute story. I'm not trying to push any side's agenda. I just want to bookend this post with that to be abundantly clear.
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