Nancy

[Barbara Stewart]

Nancy,
It's so great to see your posts again. I've missed you. Just wanted to let you know I'm thinking about you.
Happy New Year,
Barbara

 

[Christina L]

I am right there

I am right there

with Barbara - hoping that you are doing okay, Nancy - you are in my thoughts and prayers.

Christina L

 

[Nancy]

I am doing OK. It is a sad time to be sure, but my mind is at peace. Joe had a long good life in spite of enormous medical problems. He spent most of his last days right here at home, with only a short stop in the hospital. His passing was painless and peaceful, and I was able to be with him to the end.

I did as much for him as humanly possible, and so did his doctors.

As I've said in other posts, his much operated on heart served him well and was strong and true to the very end of his life, which is a wonderful testament to the value of valve surgery. He passed away from other things.

 

[Phyllis]

Glad to see you posting too, Nancy and thankful that Joe was able to stay home in your capable hands for so long and passed away so peacefully. Sending you my best wishes for a peaceful and healthy New Year.

 

[Ross]

We still love you as none other and always will.

 

[Karlynn]

I did as much for him as humanly possible.

Your relationship was a true inspiration to me.

 

[Guest]

We still love you as none other and always will.

Amen.

Nancy ... it really is good to see you posting. Thoughts/prayers are continuing for you and your family, of course.



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[Karen]

Nancy, I'm glad to see you back, too! Best wishes to you...

Karen

 

[EireCara]

*Lovely to see you back Nancy. Best Wishes and prayers. Jacqui

 

[Christina L]

Nancy -

Nancy -

You are a very strong woman and I greatly admire you. Joe is smiling down on you now - he lived a wonderful life because of you and now is at eternal rest.

I hope the new year will bring to you a renewed joy in life, even though Joe will not be physically beside you.

Christina L

 

[Susan BAV]

...It is a sad time to be sure, but my mind is at peace...His passing was painless and peaceful, and I was able to be with him to the end...I did as much for him as humanly possible, and so did his doctors...

I've been seeing you posting again and I'm so glad. And I'm so glad you were with Joe at the end, as you were through the decades. When my dear dad died, I was still two hours from home -- it's about a twelve hour trip from my door to my folk's door -- and here, nearly six years later, I still feel badly about that. Last winter a friend's husband died while only my husband and I were there with him. His wife, a wonderfully kind woman who had been near his side for most of his ongoing health crisis for a few weeks, had only left for some much-needed lunch and wasn't there right at that moment. I think it still causes her great pain but Hospice says that is often the way it goes.

May you continue to have peace of mind.

 

[Nancy]

Susan-

It may be some comfort to you--Many have told me that people sometimes deliberately choose a time when their loved ones are not there to slip away. They felt that the person wanted to spare their loved ones the grief of the final exit.

 

[Guest]

It may be some comfort to you--Many have told me that people sometimes deliberately choose a time when their loved ones are not there to slip away. They felt that the person wanted to spare their loved ones the grief of the final exit.

I'm going to need to share this (and Susan's comments) with my Mom and her sister/my aunt....and a few others from my family.

In October 2002, the day (a Sunday) before Gram (Mom's mom) died, Gram literally BEGGED Mom and Aunt Chris to "gather the family". Mom and Aunt Chris and Dad drove out that Sunday afternoon, but left that evening. The rest of us, for various reasons, did not go out. Many a time, I wish I had.

As most of you know, Gram and I spent a lot of time together ... and for me to NOT go see her was very uncharacteristic of me. But, she was over an hour away, and I didn't feel well (I think, partially, because I knew the end was near) ... and I just didn't feel like driving out there (even more uncharacteristic of me). So, when Mom woke me up early that Sunday morning to tell me that she and Aunt Chris were rushing to Mt Morris to pick up Gramps to go see Gram at the hospital in Rockford ... I was even more upset. A few short hours later, with Mom, Aunt Chris and Gramps just minutes from the hospital, Gram died. As soon as our house phone rang ... I knew. And, life hasn't been the same since.

It was similiar ... yet very different ... with Gramps just last December.

With Gram, many people told me that it was best that I didn't go ... because I would've remembered her in a "sickened" state ... this way, I can remember her lively and well, as I should and want to. Yet, at the same time, the thought of her being alone in her final moments.....

*shudders*



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