Robin Romm

The Mercy Papers is a very real, gritty, in your face book about the 3 weeks Robin spent with her mother, father, assorted friends and pets before her mother’s death. Robin expresses her anger and outrage at the cancer metastasizing through her mom’s body because her mom at some point decides to end medical treatment and stop fighting. Robin is furious at Barbara, the aide who encourages over-medicating, at her father for not being present and on top of things when her mother was first diagnosed.

No age is a good age to lose a parent but Romm, a college student at the time was much too young to deal with the aggressive end stages of her mother’s life. Thankfully, her mother’s friends, and her own friends spent time with her and her father, helping Robin’s mother with her breathing treatment, and whatever the family needed.

Robin ponders and rails against the unfairness of a remarkably brilliant, beautiful, capable wife, mother, lawyer and friend suffering for years from the pain, indignities and hideousness of worsening disease. But Robin would do anything to keep her mother alive another day, and another day. Even after years of her mother’s cancer ravaging their lives, Robin is still not ready for her to die in her 40's!

Heart-breaking story of terrible loss, of family and friends, and so much love.… (mais)