Reply #32: Teachers...a bittersweet story

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Both of my in-laws were teachers for many years. My FIL was a coach/Phys Ed teacher in a High School and my MIL taught 3rd and 4th grades.

In the month before my MIL died at my home back in 2005, she was getting various pain meds. Her bed was in the living room, which was curtained off from the rest of the house for privacy. Often, at night, we would hear her mumbling and talking in her sleep from behind her curtain.

What was she saying?

She was "teaching school". Reliving in her dreams and re-enacting her teaching days...mostly doing math with "her" kids.

Every night until she went into a coma and could no longer speak.

I thought it was interesting that her last month on earth would involve reliving her teaching days.

She must have truly loved her job.