codemonkey
Shared on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 23:28For those that have read a prior blog, my grandmother is dying of cancer - we found out on Thanksgiving. Well, she's now comfortable at my fathers house and the entire family was over tonight.
My father lives five minutes down the road, which is nice, and that allowed me to get over there fast. My grandmother asked, today, if everyone was going to come and see her tonight... figuring "she knows" her time is coming close (she was given 3 weeks to live, but it seems like it may be more like measured in hours not days).
Well, we were all there. She wasn't doing so good, only was able to wake up a few times during the night. But we were all there. Here sister, her close family, her three boys (one is my dad of course) all the wives, kids, everyone. My cousin (and best friend when I was little) flew up as well. It was very cool to see everyone together like that, even given the situation.
I'm at home now, but we spent the evening there and got to visit with her. She's got family pictures all around and artifacts from when the boys were kids and all that. Just very cool.
All I know is, if I can be given such a great send off it would be an honor. To have all my family and friends there to say goodbye - how could you possibly ask for more then that, right? Yes, its leukemia and its extremely fatal at her age of 86 but hell, if your going to go you might as well have a bit of a party and be able to have that opportunity with your family. If only everyone had the ability to pre-plan their final days in such a way...
CodeMonkey
My father lives five minutes down the road, which is nice, and that allowed me to get over there fast. My grandmother asked, today, if everyone was going to come and see her tonight... figuring "she knows" her time is coming close (she was given 3 weeks to live, but it seems like it may be more like measured in hours not days).
Well, we were all there. She wasn't doing so good, only was able to wake up a few times during the night. But we were all there. Here sister, her close family, her three boys (one is my dad of course) all the wives, kids, everyone. My cousin (and best friend when I was little) flew up as well. It was very cool to see everyone together like that, even given the situation.
I'm at home now, but we spent the evening there and got to visit with her. She's got family pictures all around and artifacts from when the boys were kids and all that. Just very cool.
All I know is, if I can be given such a great send off it would be an honor. To have all my family and friends there to say goodbye - how could you possibly ask for more then that, right? Yes, its leukemia and its extremely fatal at her age of 86 but hell, if your going to go you might as well have a bit of a party and be able to have that opportunity with your family. If only everyone had the ability to pre-plan their final days in such a way...
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