Nora, I totally understand what you are going through. I lost my husband in February after a crazy wonderful 6 1/2 years of marriage. This past few months have been a feeling like I have never felt before. Before I met him, I was an independent single mom who took care of everything. When I met him, I met my best friend and fell in love deeply. We had our ups and downs like every marriage, but the one constant was that we loved each other and didn't want to be without each other. We supported each other through everything. The last few years, it was more me supporting him while he went through some tough personal times but that is what a best friend and a wife does. In February, my husband died as a result of multiple blunt injuries to the head during a motorcycle accident. Before anyone starts talking about how dangerous motorcycles are, please understand that he was not a careless rider and he was doing the speed limit and wearing a full faced helmet. The truck in front of him was leaking oil and it got all over his bike and made him go into the median. He made it through the median but when he went to get back on the road, the tire caught the lip of the road and in turn made him flip. When his friend who was riding with him (and unfortunately saw the whole thing)called me to tell me he was in a serious accident I thought my world was crashing around me. I hopped in my car and rushed the 2 hour drive to the hospital where I sat by his side until it was time. He was a tissue and organ donor and unfortunately his organs weren't viable, but his tissue was. When I arrived there, there was no brain function so i never got to say goodbye. I just had the memory of our last kiss and last hug that morning before he rode off.We had talked about what to do if the time ever came so I knew what needed to be done, I just hated that i had to make that decision. That night was the hardest because I had to tell our children, my son/his stepson is 18 and he knew as soon as he saw me and i saw him grow into a man right in front of my eyes. His son, who was living with us, is 13 and his whole world was up in the air. He had finally found a spot where he fit in and loved being and now it was not the same and he knew he would have to go live with his mom again. I was lucky enough to be surrounded by friends who took care of everything that dealt with the service. I of course had the final say so on everything but they made it into an event that people will always talk about. There were 300 people at his service and there was standing room only. It was an amazing site to see how many people loved and respected him. I on the other hand was falling apart inside. I had to go back to work that following week because if i didn't then i didnt get paid. I did take some days off and the paycheck reflected it, but i got past that. My days were fine for the most part, it is the night time that has been so utterly terrible. I cannot sleep in our room, so I sleep on the couch. We did everything together and talked constantly, so the feeling of being all alone is overwhelming. I can be strong one minute and break down crying the next minute. It just sucks, there are no other words for me to describe how i feel. I go on with my days and try to muddle through the nights, but the pure fact is i miss my husband and my friend. I don't know what to do next, I am back to being the single mom again, but now I don't have that feeling of being a strong, independent person i was before him or with him. I do take help from people when i need it, but in all actuality the only thing i need is my husband. I miss him making me laugh, i miss him making me mad, i miss every little thing about him. Thanks for letting me vent.

The roots look good to me. I would not repot, at least not in this season. The plant is not dying, I do not think, even though parts of it are. I am not sure what kind of hoya it is. If I had to bet, I'd say lacunosa, but some leaves look like krohniana (which some say is a subspecies or a variety of lacunosa anyway). That new leaf is indeed strange looking, but there's no reason to worry - hoyas produce out of character looking leaves (very large or very long or deformed) all the time. It's normal for some vines and leaves to yellow and dry out, especially in the winter. Where are you, by the way? You might want to give it more light and warmth, if those things are lacking in your climate, or specifically in the micro-climate where it lives. I would not worry about the yellowing parts, unless much more of them would start yellowing. You can cut those parts off if it bugs you, or you could just let them dry off on their own. Are all the yellowing parts on one side of the plant? I could not tell from the last picture. If they are, and if it's the shady side of the plant, then you know for sure it wants more light. I hope others chime in - I do not have that much experience diagnosing plant problems.

what zone/area are you in? tree might be dropping leaves and going to dormancy. if you had drought in your area trees will turn color earlier...

I thought fusca but then discarded that idea. Certainly not C. Queen. The bigger succulent leaves are a little more difficult to start but not impossible. The idea is to treat them like succulents (very little moisture inside but still cover them to keep humidity in) and when they start rooting then to give them more water. I first thought nelumbiifolia but then your mother's leaves look different than yours. Here is my old C. Queen in an 18 inch pot back in 2005. My biggest one was Lotusland and I kept it for two years - it is a monster. I was able to propagate it from leaves but it was more difficult than other large leaf begonias. I found another name you might want to check - gigantea. At least this how I bought it - from left to right gigantea, Sophie, and a smaller version of Lotusland