Last night wasn’t quite as hard at Mom’s (I have to catch myself from saying Mom and Dad’s like I would normally). My sisters cleaned Dad’s bedroom and put his things away so everything in the room doesn’t make me remember this week. They aired out the room, burned a candle to make it smell good, and somehow […]
How do we go from here? We are so thankful that Daddy has passed and is free from suffering. The house is still so full of his essence, I can’t look in his bedrom without expecting to see him in there (and after these past days, FEARING to see him there as he was). The […]
Our wonderful daddy passed away quietly at 8:30 this morning. It was peaceful and painless and finally he is free of suffering. We will forever miss this man who was larger than life to so many of us, but we are thankful for no more pain, no more needles, no more wheelchairs and bedpans and […]
The agony of this experience just never ends. I arrived this morning to the sound of my dad howling, no wailing, in pain. He began this waling around 3 am, waking up everyone with one of the baby monitors in the house. The haunting sound of that pitiful wail will be with me the rest […]
We are coping as best we can with this horrible process of watching someone we love die slowly day by day. But then we realize we have been watching this process day by day for several years, in and out of hospitals, surgeries. The difference is that we were focused on helping him get better, […]
Some would ask why I would use my blog to write about such a sad and heart-wrenching topic as my father’s dying. Why I’m spending time doing this instead of being there with him, why I’m putting myself through the extra emotional turmoil of writing about it. I don’t honestly have good answers for this. […]
I have made it through the third day since my father announced that he was coming home to die. Yesterday while Mom ran errands family came to visit and spend some time with him, saying their goodbyes as best might be possible. Unfortunately, while he was awake, his mind was somewhere else. He was groucy […]
That’s how I have to characterize the last few days. Bitter accepting my dad’s choice to die, sweet remembering all the wonderful things about him. Tonight I was laughing over something with my husband, and out of nowhere my brain connected with a memory from several years ago with dad. Instantly I went from laughter […]
I know I’ve been slow to update my blog. The last couple of months have been largely taken up with the healthcare needs of my dad. At 75, he’s lost a leg to diabetes, had bypass surgery, congestive heart failure, a couple of strokes, and has been on dialysis for five years due to kidney […]
A bakery in Indiana is taking heat from the media and some special interest groups over its choice to turn down an order for rainbow cupcakes to celebrate National Coming Out Day in October. The bakery, called “Just Cookies” declined to make cupcakes for the event, saying they don’t make cupcakes (Hello, those on the […]
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For the past week I’ve been tied up helping to care for my dad who had surgery a couple of weeks ago on his leg to restore circulation and heal an infection in his foot. The operation went very well, he was steadily improving and then over the weekend he spiked a fever, had chest […]
