article_snippet.sent: It might not have happened that way,' her mother Connie Phillips said.
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips was a fighter,' Connie Phillips told KPCC's Public Insight Network of Connie Phillips Connie Phillips.
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips says that in 2011 Connie Phillips 's condition grew more grave.
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips had to quit Connie Phillips job as a teacher in Phoenix, Arizona and moved in with Amber Phillips and Connie Phillips husband in Los Angeles.
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips says the medication prevented Connie Phillips from driving or being independent which was especially hard for Connie Phillips.
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips was on heavy narcotics
article_snippet.sent: so Connie Phillips couldn't drive, Connie Phillips was no longer in Connie Phillips own home, Connie Phillips no longer had her job, Connie Phillips was moved away from Connie Phillips friends and Connie Phillips became dependent on us,' Connie Phillips said. '
article_snippet.sent: This was incredibly difficult for Connie Phillips.'
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips says Connie Phillips loved Connie Phillips
article_snippet.sent: so that's why Connie Phillips wanted Connie Phillips to live.
article_snippet.sent: us just wanted Connie Phillips to live
article_snippet.sent: and us wanted Connie Phillips to continue fighting,' Connie Phillips said wistfully. '
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips says Connie Phillips ignored the signs that Connie Phillips was going to die, especially after Connie Phillips father died of a heart attack in the Spring of 2012. '
article_snippet.sent: I just doubled down,' Connie Phillips says. '
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips says Connie Phillips continued to deteriorate and that at one point Connie Phillips lost her mother voice and started having trouble breathing.
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips didn't allow Connie Phillips to imagine Connie Phillips dying at first and still fought in her mother mind to keep her mother alive.
article_snippet.sent: we were still going to Target on the weekends, and taking weekend trips together,' said Connie Phillips.