Sadness for my daughter :-(

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She is 15 and likes school fairly well. She is NT. Her favorite teacher is her biology teacher, Mrs M. Mrs M is big on pets like my daughter is. They both have Giant Flemish Rabbits, and a pet snake. She loves going to Mrs M's class and talking to her and Mrs M was going to advise her about what classes she should take because my daughter wants to be a marine biologist. She loves Mrs M and always talks about her.

Mrs M's father died over the weekend, and they were very close. She was a brittle diabetic and had lots of other health problems. Mrs M's husband found her unconscious a few hours after she found out about her Dad's death. She had a stroke, is in a coma and not breathing on her own. They informed the students of this yesterday. Today they told them that if she isn't breathing on her own within a day or so, they are turning off life support.

I feel very bad for Mrs M's family and also very, very bad for my daughter. She is heartbroken.

Frances

That's very sad for everyone.

Poor thing(s).

*hugs*

Thank you. My daughter called her "My bunny teacher" because they talked about their bunnies all the time. Sometimes Mrs M would bring her bunny to school. She was trying to get permission from the principal to let her and my daughter bring their snakes one day. On a feeding day is what the boys wanted.

Everybody was hoping she would pull through, and who knows, a miracle may happen. She was in a horrible wreck in her 20s that nobody thought she would survive, but she didn't have health problems then. It was so bad that the cop thought she was dead. When the ambulance got there, they found out she was barely alive and was on life support for weeks before she came out of it. She had problems with her legs and back from that though. So, she has been through bad things before and maybe her will to live pulled her through. Everybody was hoping it would this time.

Frances

that's sad, she sounds nice. I'll be hoping she pulls through

It's a good thing your daughter has an involved mother who is concerned, since it sounds like she'll need help from a trusted adult to make sense of this. I think there are some valuable life lessons in here about how quickly life can change, so you should live each day to the fullest and be thankful for people in our lives, etc, but it can be really hard to sort all of that out when you're only 15 and maybe haven't experienced a sudden loss before. Maybe, if Mrs. M doesn't pull through (and I hope she does!), you can encourage her to keep a journal about how she's feeling and talk with you, as needed.