Re: Check out Hard Choices For Loving People>Barbara

[Guest guest]

Barbara,

Thank you for sharing this with us. I have read parts of it and will

read all of it soon. The parts that I read were beautiful and

inspirational. Thank you for sharing your Ken with us who didn't get

to know him. I know he was a wonderful man because you are such a

wonderful woman.

Love and gentle hugs,

Belinda

> http://www.hospicenet.org/html/choices.html " >Click here:

Hard Choices For Loving People

> I am posting this because this was the single most helpful

booklet to

> me as I went through the last six months of Ken's life. I am not

suggesting

> to anyone that it is time for this, but I do think what it says is

worth

> thinking about. I know that Ken's last months were peaceful and no

longer

> burdened by my attempts to get him to keep fighting just for me.

Those of you

> who went through this time with me will remember that Ken got so

much better

> during that time that he almost didn't qualify for Hospice, and he

even

> weathered a bout with sepsis without using antibiotics because he

was not

> ready yet to go. The day did come, however, when he slammed his

hands on the

> table and refused to do any more exercises, and it was only a

couple of weeks

> later that he finally did let himself go. Yes, Belinda, I do

believe that we

> will be together again one day.

> Love, Barbara