Re: UpdatePicks for Sally>Marilyn

[Guest guest]

Dear Marilyn

Thank you for your kind words. You are at the place with your dear

husband that we were at with Elmer in his last year. He begged us not

to take him to the hospital each time and to please just let him go. He

was so very tired and by the end of some days, he would just cry. I'm

the one who went to sit with him then because the family just couldn't

take any more. His behavior was always good with me but it was

heartbreaking to see him so miserable.

It is hard to watch a person who has always been strong suddenly have to

depend on others for everything. I also believe it's hard to watch that

person become another person or become the disease. You begin to

wonder if you will be able to remember the person you loved or just the

disease. I was terrified when I lost my brother last year that I would

always see him like he was at the end.

I'm happy to tell you that after almost a year, I no longer remember the

man in the bed with sunken eyes and swollen body but remember the happy

smiling face of my brother who loved life and his family.

Thank you for your thoughts. Please remember to take care of yourself

and to sit and hold your husband's hand while he sleeps and remember

the man he was before.

Sally

[Guest guest]

Sally,

The only thing I can say to you is " Amen " .

S.

Re: UpdatePicks for Sally>Marilyn

> Dear Marilyn

>

> Thank you for your kind words. You are at the place with your dear

> husband that we were at with Elmer in his last year. He begged us not

> to take him to the hospital each time and to please just let him go. He

> was so very tired and by the end of some days, he would just cry. I'm

> the one who went to sit with him then because the family just couldn't

> take any more. His behavior was always good with me but it was

> heartbreaking to see him so miserable.

>

> It is hard to watch a person who has always been strong suddenly have to

> depend on others for everything. I also believe it's hard to watch that

> person become another person or become the disease. You begin to

> wonder if you will be able to remember the person you loved or just the

> disease. I was terrified when I lost my brother last year that I would

> always see him like he was at the end.

>

> I'm happy to tell you that after almost a year, I no longer remember the

> man in the bed with sunken eyes and swollen body but remember the happy

> smiling face of my brother who loved life and his family.

>

> Thank you for your thoughts. Please remember to take care of yourself

> and to sit and hold your husband's hand while he sleeps and remember

> the man he was before.

>

> Sally

>

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