Hi Halkush!
I am so sorry to hear about your mothers health! I will pray for her and for the LORD ADONAI, to help give your mother's doctors wisdom how to help her best. That is so great, you are able to spend precious time with your mother, like that and learn from her. Also, to help understand her and relate to her better, you can read these Two very greatly informative Books entitled: "The Russia Civil War", by Evan Mawdsley AND "The Whisperers -Private Life in Stalin's Russia", by Orlando Figes - Author of "Natasha's Dance"....Very very informative filled with so many personal stories of great suffering.....I have not read either of the books in their entirety, but what I have read just makes me cry for them, for what all they suffered and went throug! Two other books I have, I suggest for reading, are entitled: "Russia" by Hyman Kublin and "The Empire of the Tsars -The Splendour and the Fall-Pictures and Documents 1896 -1920 -by Elisabeth Heresch (Translated from German by Paul Williams...That last book, I don't know if you can even find it in the USA or in Australia....My oldest daughters father-my late-exhusband, brought it back from Russian for me.
That is great that she is "sharp as a tack"! I encourage you to write a book about your mothers stories of enduring and overcoming the Stalin Reign of Terror. So many could learn from your mothers wisdom. Is she Jewish Russian or just Russian with a different faith? Now I know why you understood my Russian when I tried to "post-speak" to V....K in Russian. (I forgot how to spell that persons web site name; sorry). My friend Irene is living in Isreal, but she is a Russian Jew from Russia. She moved to Israel with her husband, where they are Messianic Jewish CHRISTian Missionaries.
That is so wonderful that you take the time out, to spend with your mother. I know you are a gift to her. Not too many people, these days will do that. That is why, when I could, I would go visit the elderly in the Nursing Homes & Retirement Home Communities; knowing that a lot of them have no family living any more or have family who do not come see them very often. One lady I use to visit in a Harahan Nursing Home/Retirement Community Home, was Deaf. I was one of the only ones who would come see her, and communicate with her in American Sign Language. You should have seen her face, everytime I came to see her. She smiled so big, almost the whole time I was there and she was just so excited that she even had someone to talk to her in sign language. No one working there, even bothered trying to learn any sign language to help her best, when she needed it. That really hurt me to see...GOD Bless You for being so Good to Your Mother, especially after all she has been through!
Love Your Sister,
Eagle/Stacey