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  • Reviewed by omgtehlawls on Jul 10 2008, 8:21pm

    This is one of the most touching stories I've ever seen.

  • Rated by sagesomethyme on May 02 2008, 7:58pm

    Very touching documentary of a family's journey through a young mother's illness, death and aftermath thanks for the find Misha http://clayfeet.stumbleupon.com/

  • Rated by thelindzfactor on Apr 28 2008, 3:51pm

    I can't even explain how moved I was by this documentary. It was truly moving and brought to life the harsh reality of cancer.

  • Rated by kismet72 on Apr 13 2008, 6:23am

    It probably wasn't the best time for me to watch this documentary, but I'm glad I did anyway. Having lost a mother to brain cancer, as many of you know, I could really relate to this- and while the daughter doesn't speak very often, everything she did say resonated with me. Becoming used to seeing her mother in a hospital bed, not remembering her mother before the cancer, etc. That is something that really hits home with me. It's just they were sick for so long, it's hard to go back to before to imagine what they were like healthy. It's almost amazing how we adapt to new standards of "normal" - I would come home every day, walk into her bedroom, say hi to the hospice nurses, lean over her hospital bed, kiss her on the forehead, and go do my homework. One memory that really stands out for me is the day of my Bat Mitzvah. I remember worrying the whole day that the wig she was wearing, which seemed to me to be precariously perched way too far back on her head, tied in place with a head scarf made of the same, satiny material as her dress (she was always a clothes horse and fashionista) was going to come off when they lifted her in the chair as often is done at this type of celebration. She was so self-conscious about her appearance - even before she was ill, and now... I remember holding my breath when some men hoisted her high in the chair, and was so relieved when she was smiling and seeming to be enjoying it. But right up until the minute they set her down, all I had been doing all day was worrying that it would come off, and how everything would be ruined. When we got home that night, and we were all changed out of our formal clothing and sitting in the Den, she looked at my father and I asked, "What did we do today?" Being at synagogue, the giant party, all the guests... she had no recollection. Brain tumors... gotta love 'em. I was actually glad, for an instant, that it had been video taped - although I don't think I watched it but once after she died. I think that if you have the stomach for it, and a full box of tissues (I suggest Puffs Plus) - that you watch this, and then go and tell the people you love that you love them, because you never know- life is just too fragile. Why take any chances?

  • Rated by AlthaeaSoaps on Apr 12 2008, 8:58pm

    this is among the most crushingly beautiful things i have ever witnessed. thanks to everyone involved for sharing this with us.