I mentioned my grandma was placed into hospice care a couple of weeks ago on the first of May, she passed away that Sunday the 4th. My mom spent the day with her and said she really didn't respond to her all day, Mom left and my aunt Lucy was there with her when she passed about 20 minutes later. Lucy said it was very peaceful and had she not been watching her breathing she wouldn't have known that she stopped.
It's so hard to lose people that are close to you, I feel like I've been through this way too many times. But no matter what or how it happens, whether its something you knew was coming or it happens in an instant, it hurts and it's sad to think you will never get to talk to them again. The selfish part of you thinks about all the things that they will miss out on that you know they would have loved to have been a part of, or you just wish they could be a part of to share in your life. Things like watching great grandkids be added to the family, watching a grandchild graduate, grow etc. As sad as it is to say good-bye I'm also comforted to know that she's no longer in pain. One thing is for sure my grandma was a strong woman. Through the past few years as her health/mobility declined she was the last person you'd hear complain. She was also the last person to ask for help or be willing to give up the ability to do things which is probably what kept her going as long as she did. She had a lot of pride and wasn't going to stop doing anything that she could continue to do on her own.
Grandma's Obituary
I have so many memories of a childhood filled with my Grandma & Grandpa. Days spent on the farm, the time grandma picked me up from school in kindergarten because I vomited all over the desks..yep that happened, making us pancakes of any shape we could imagine (My favorite was the horse/cow shape), mint chocolate chip ice cream and letting us eat as much as we wanted. I remember making towering ice cream cones with my cousins Kevin & April. Her allowing us to have contests to see who could eat the most ears of corn during sweet corn season, being amazed at her ability to peal an apple with a knife in a huge spiral without breaking the peal, always whispering to her in the wrong ear (she lost her hearing in one ear when she was young to scarlet fever). But always keeping us in line by threatening beatings with her yard stick, not sure anyone ever got one but I sure wasn't going to be the one to find out! Grandma was exactly what you think of/want in a Grandma. In her eyes we were all perfect & she was the first to tell people about her perfect grandchildren regardless of how imperfect we might actually be. Grandma & Grandpa put photos up of all their grandchildren and great-grandchildren for grandma to see from her hospital bed before she passed, 6 kids of their own, 14 grandchildren & 13 great-grandchildren....that's a heck of a legacy when you consider that's 33 people who wouldn't exist with out the two of them.
It's so hard to say good-bye. (thanks boys II men) But how fortunate we all were to have someone so wonderful be a part of our lives.
It's so hard to lose people that are close to you, I feel like I've been through this way too many times. But no matter what or how it happens, whether its something you knew was coming or it happens in an instant, it hurts and it's sad to think you will never get to talk to them again. The selfish part of you thinks about all the things that they will miss out on that you know they would have loved to have been a part of, or you just wish they could be a part of to share in your life. Things like watching great grandkids be added to the family, watching a grandchild graduate, grow etc. As sad as it is to say good-bye I'm also comforted to know that she's no longer in pain. One thing is for sure my grandma was a strong woman. Through the past few years as her health/mobility declined she was the last person you'd hear complain. She was also the last person to ask for help or be willing to give up the ability to do things which is probably what kept her going as long as she did. She had a lot of pride and wasn't going to stop doing anything that she could continue to do on her own.
Grandma's Obituary
I have so many memories of a childhood filled with my Grandma & Grandpa. Days spent on the farm, the time grandma picked me up from school in kindergarten because I vomited all over the desks..yep that happened, making us pancakes of any shape we could imagine (My favorite was the horse/cow shape), mint chocolate chip ice cream and letting us eat as much as we wanted. I remember making towering ice cream cones with my cousins Kevin & April. Her allowing us to have contests to see who could eat the most ears of corn during sweet corn season, being amazed at her ability to peal an apple with a knife in a huge spiral without breaking the peal, always whispering to her in the wrong ear (she lost her hearing in one ear when she was young to scarlet fever). But always keeping us in line by threatening beatings with her yard stick, not sure anyone ever got one but I sure wasn't going to be the one to find out! Grandma was exactly what you think of/want in a Grandma. In her eyes we were all perfect & she was the first to tell people about her perfect grandchildren regardless of how imperfect we might actually be. Grandma & Grandpa put photos up of all their grandchildren and great-grandchildren for grandma to see from her hospital bed before she passed, 6 kids of their own, 14 grandchildren & 13 great-grandchildren....that's a heck of a legacy when you consider that's 33 people who wouldn't exist with out the two of them.
It's so hard to say good-bye. (thanks boys II men) But how fortunate we all were to have someone so wonderful be a part of our lives.
