Thank you the Walking Dead for providing a means to remember my Mom.

Sorry to post like this as it is my first time on this sub and I'm also on mobile so please forgive the formatting.

I've watched this show since it first aired back in 2010. I started the show with my girlfriend (now wife) and I was absolutely hooked. I told my mom about the show and she was completely disinterested. She had no desire to watch it.

Fast forward to right before the season 4 premier, I'm staying with my mom for a week while on break from school. They had just put season 3 of the show on Netflix. I decided to binge it and force her into watching it. She complained, but she eventually relented. I'm her youngest, so she always eventually caved when I wanted to watch something with her.

After the first episode, she put her phone down and was completely glued to the screen. We watched all 3 seasons that week. When I went back home, she would call me the second the episodes finished airing to ask me if I had watched it yet. Then we would talk about what happened, our predictions, what we thought the characters would do, ect.

Well, a year and a half ago she was diagnosed with cancer. Even with that devastating news, we still continued to watch the show like nothing was happening. I kept watching it through the shoe's decline over the last couple of seasons because she watched it.

Back in April, I bought us tickets to see the season 8 finale in theaters. She was so happy to be able to watch it with me. She joked that it would probably be her last episode because the disease was progressing.

She was so depressed about the leaks in May regarding a certain leading man of the show and she said she may stop watching it. Come October, she is still here and glued to the screen. We both enjoyed the immense jump in quality the show experienced.

I started coming to visit her every weekend to spend as much time as possible with her and we would actually watch the show together like we did when she first got into it. We were ecstatic when Rick left the show with promise of a continued relationship with the series.

Now, here we are at MD Anderson. She's fighting for her life and losing. It's so hard seeing her like this. When she passes I will continue to watch this show that we both loved for her sake.

I love you mom, please go peacefully.

Thanks for listening to me vent. I'll get out of your hair.

Submitted December 29, 2018 at 02:02PM by Blade978 http://bit.ly/2GUExrc