John, Shari, and Amanda – The Long Lost Siblings

John Wise, Shari Wiesman, and Amanda Goff in Tempe, Arizona

These two women on my left are Shari Weisman and Amanda Goff – they are my sisters. We have been estranged off and on for the better part of the majority of our adult lives. What brought us together was the fact on this day we had to inform our mother that she was going to be moved into a group home in eight days. Our mother Karen Goff had a stroke back in October and apparently made the decision that she wouldn’t participate in her recovery even though her doctors gave her a 95% chance of doing so. A few minutes after snapping this first-ever selfie of the three of us together we walked in to inform our mom who was absolutely nonplussed as to her fate. Some days after this decision a hospice worker visited her and let us know that she qualified for hospice assistance as she was neglectful and even combative on eating or drinking, it appeared our mother was deciding to commit suicide. I’m posting this image with the date of March 13th as that’s when I shot it, but I’m writing this on the 25th of March as I’ve been informed that our mother is breathing laboriously and has been in a morphine-induced cloud with nearly no communication for the past five days. The end is likely near.

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