Wherever my Mom is, I hope she is surrounded by roses --her favorite flower.She was brilliant,driven and didn't have time for interruptions like me.
I remember trying to give her some flowers while she was studying for pharmacology and organic chemistry finals. I was not very big and she told me "later" She said she gave me life and that was enough.
At that time,undergrad and postgrad nursing students were selling their unwanted babies as medical specimens to a doctor in DFW Metroplex and she wouldn't and got him shut down.
She did stop studying long enough to plant the blooms on the flowers and they grew.
In cases my Dad got killed on one of his assignments she wanted to take care of us.So she studied and made straight As in classes I couldn't even begin to comprehend or pronounce.
I went to live in New Orleans shortly after that incident.