Donna Smith
Unknown to Alicia’s clientele, she has suffered greatly, in the past 18 months. I am her mother, and what mother doesn’t want to protect her children. Over the course of the past year and a half, my mom, was hospitalized for 4 months, until she passed away. Alicia was extremely close to her grandmother, but she shouldered on, because she had her business and children that needed her full attention. We had two more deaths in the family in quick session after my mom passed.
And it was a busy year for Alicia’s business, and she was having a bit of difficulty with her equipment, but again, she was staying on top of the problems at that time.
Then tragedy struck again. My husband, Alicia’s stepdad, who helped me raise her since she was 5 years old, fell from a 30 foot ladder, and broke his neck. He did survive the fall, but now, he was a quadriplegic, after two surgeries. He would have to be on a ventilator for the rest of his life. We always made it clear none of us would want to live like that, and Kenny made it clear to “let him go. So we did, Alicia, her brother Cory and I were with him as he was taken off the ventilator..we all suffered from losing him, and I was pretty much just staying in my bed, but, again, my daughter had to continue to be a mom and trying to figure out how she was going to be able to save her business, and her marriage, and raise 3 young children that demanded a lot of her attention. I failed my daughter because I couldn’t help her and she was “thrown under the bus” because no one was helping her..
I’m doing this, unbeknownst of Alicia. And she wouldn’t like the fact I feel the need to take up for her, but I’m trying to shed some light to the reason why she failed for the last year and a half, not because she didn’t try, not because she lost her passion for her photography, because she didn’t care, but because she cared so much about the family losses that happened during that time..
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