I know this is short notice (only a week and a half), but mom wants to get this done soon. We realize that many of you will not be able to make it to this gathering and we will miss not having you here, but we understand. Call that day if you like and say…
Mom’s nephew Craig and his wife Mary stopped by for the second time in a week. Mom really enjoyed the time spent with them. I suppose a silver lining to losing someone in the family is the time you get to spend with people you haven’t seen for a while. They chatted for a couple…
My nephew Nick dropped by for a visit with mom (his grandma of course). Nick is living in Alabama now and got tickets to come here the day before dad passed, so unfortunately he didn’t get to see his grandpa. It was still a nice visit and really good for mom to see her grand…
Mom has many blessings to be thankful for, which is probably why she wants the hymn “Count your blessings” to be sung at her service when she passes. Mom got another one yesterday in the form of good news from the radiology oncologist. The single lesion she had on her brain responded well to treatment…
This is a continuation of the post I made earlier today… Today was a busy day, which is good in that it helps keep our minds from focusing on the loss. At least that is how it should have been, but each of the things we did today involved dad in some way. Mom and…
Getting back to a normal routine is my goal for mom and the rest of the family. Our lives have been turned upside down with all that has happened to my parents recently that we have not done many of the things that we used to do. Getting back to the gym is first on…
Dear Dad, On Monday, April 7, 2014 just a few minutes before 9:00am you took your last breath. We knew this would happen, eventually, when we brought you home the previous Friday. You were happy to be coming home. I know that there was a brief moment when after you arrived at home that…
Dad is still tickin’ and I am sure he is just giving us a chance to savor every moment.. lol As of about midnight last night, he is no longer responding to us. He is sleeping peacefully and even though the sound of his breathing could be shocking for those hearing it for the first…
I am finding out moment by moment that I am capable of handling just about anything. That no matter how bad the crisis seems, we will get through it okay. It has been one whole day since dad came home. It has been a strange and trying twenty-four hours. For the most part dad is…
I just got a crash course in hospice care as my parents decided my father should come home with the help of hospice. Given that we did not foresee this as something we would need for dad, we did not do any homework on the subject. We were working under assumptions we had based on…