Grieving After Caregiving: After Death of Her Parents, Daughter Finds Healing Through Puzzling

By Hazel | Trice Edney Wire(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Growing up in her Northwest Washington, DC, neighborhood, Tisha Lewis’s mother would often call her a Daddy’s girl.“I was always hanging on to his leg or standing on his feet as he walked,” she recalled fondly in a recent interview. “Even as an adult, up until his passing, he would still greet me with, “Hey Sugar’”.But as she grew up through her teen rebellion stages, went away to college and ultimately earned a doctorate degree in reading, she grew extraordinarily close to her mother. “She became my very best friend and my confidant…She was so much closer to me than any other woman that she was the matron of honor at my wedding.”Actually, the loving relationship she had with both of her parents – Mr. and Mrs. Thomas “Tom” and Lucille Lewis – was what any adult daughter would want and admire. That loving relationship is why Dr. Tisha Y. Lewis Ellison, Ph.D. (Tisha) was shattered when her mother, a healthy woman who was the faithful primary caregiver to her sickly father, broke the news to her that she had been diagnosed with stage four colon cancer.Mrs. Lewis had nursed her& husband through...