I have terrible news about Jocelyne: as you may have noticed here non existent activity since a week, she got struck by a severe aneurysm rupture in the brain. For those who don't know yet, I, Philippe, a.k.a. philippeL is her son. Her secondary account is also surrealistic-gloom, where she allowed to express deep emotions through surrealistic and strongly edited photos.

She desired to keep all those "secrets" for her own reasons, not to offend anyone, on the contrary. But now, everybody ought to know her terrible fate.

Although she did not suffer much since the time I saw her - certainly she experienced a massive headache when it happened at her home at Quebec City, Canada, early this week. Seized by violent spasms and gestures, she grabbed tables, chairs, books and many objects on her grasp, living the room where she was as a mess. And I found here there Friday night. I know that she was in this state since few days because I ceased to see her activity in Internet since Monday. Also, her neighbor, when he got back from a little trip on Thursday, saw newspapers and mail piling up at her door. I know I should have called him on Thursday, while I was deeply concerned about her silence on Internet and by phone - she had the bad habit to unplug her phones at home, since ringing stressed her big big time. I thought she might have been simply depressed, but it was way too late anyway...

On Saturday I met doctors that offered me a very grim prognosis: either I decided for her to have surgery to remove her oedema, the brain, which was severly damaged on the right hemisphere, would not come back normal. It would have meant long long time of readaptation with reduced motricity, left-side paralysis, and maybe cognitive faculties on jeopardy, with loss of memory and all. The alternative was comfort care, with pain medication and letting her go. I struggled and struggled real hard for two hours with those options, on Saturday. My pain and grief were overwhelming.

I had to think hard about what my mom would have wanted; it came into my memory that she dreaded to come at a point to be confined to a senior care house, with the blatant humiliation of getting changed by strangers. Also I asked myself: this barely surviving person would not have been "Jocelyne" anymore if she'd been unable to hold again a camera, go on photo hiking, take care of flowers, giving food to wild animals, going on small trips, shopping, reading and interacting with her dA accounts. Well you know well her hobbies through her awesome photos!

So I decided to let her go peacefully; she had many other stressing issues. Lately, she was undecided about what to submit from her numerous dA Stash; her plan was to post a "Happy New Year" picture but she had hard time deciding which to pick. Not sure if this is something to do with her fatal condition to come, unless someone can tell the contrary. She had sinusitis and pain problems, but I never figure out that she would not live long long, still. She was 75.

Well as for today, I will unleash photos from the Stash of her two accounts, few at the time; I have always been saddened by the fact that she kept so many treasures unpublished over the years, due to her undecision and her concern to not "spam" too much her watchers...

I will use her accounts to submit her photos, not mine, but I do not expect to answer comments on them. There will be like a window on her unique and splendid creativity. Yours to appreciate, as a tribute to a dear dear lady

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It is my belated birthday gift, dear José, I hope you will like it!

I wish you a beautiful upcoming year, plenty of happiness, joy and health!