The Habit

The Habit is written by Susan Moore. It is a story about her Ma. It starts in Sept.2007 and tells about her Ma's driving skills and the fact that she had to give up driving. Suasn has a brother who is not married and lives a couple hours away and a sister who lives in England. Susan has a daughter and twin sons and an actor husband.

Her Mom get sick and diagnosed with colon cancer. She under goes radiation and chemo before the surgery of a colostomy. During this time her mom decides to become a Nun connected with an Orthodox Christian Church. Her name is Mother Brigid.
After her surgery Susan  had to move her into an assisted Living Home.She liked it there ok.However she ran Susan crazy as she had to have a certain toilet paper, kleenex,and wipes and very frequently. She tells of all the problems with HMO's, Medicare ,hospital and Dr.'s.
Susan does a lot of remembering as does her mom. Her Mom was and artist,so is Susan.
The story goes on through 2010 and tells of Mother Brigid's broken hip and arm, rehab, moving to another facility.
This book was not my kind of reading.It wasn't a bad book in spite of 1 bad word but just not what I like to read.