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Spent yesterday down South visiting with my last Remaining and Eldest Sister...
She is in Hospice Care with Brain and Lung Cancer...
She has very little Time with us left.
My Wife and I have seen a lot of Death in our Families since about 2003.
She Lost her Grandmother here in Denver and then her Father.
Then I Lost a Lifelong Friend just as my Daughter was Born, and then both of my Parents just after my Son was Born...
In the last 2 Weeks her other Grandmother Passed and then one of my Aunts did.
Now my Sister is going to join them.
We told my Daughter that my Sister was "Sick", so she Asked to make her some "Soup" to make her feel better.
If only something Magical like that could happen...
But then again, relatively speaking, the Soup did make my Sister feel better.
My Daughter is only 4 but has a Heart as big as the Earth.
Two Ends of Life...
My Sister was given 5 Months a year and half ago...
She Fought a Courageous Fight against the thing that is Killing her.
A Beautiful and Proud Women, she is...
Like our Mother before her... Until the last week of my Mom's LONG Battle with Illnesses, she was Certain, even at 88, that she was going to beat it.
My Sister is the Same... She's now come to Terms with it, not able to get out of Bed...
It's as Sad as it is Angering...
But we will all go some day.
It's what we do with it while we have it that Matters.
Appreciate the one's you have while you have them.
If not for my Wife and Children I am not Sure how I would have Handled these things.
Because of them, I am Blessed...
I am also Blessed to have Known my Sister for almost 40 Years...
I only Knew my first Sister to Pass for 15 Years...
WAY too Young, she was.
Like it was Yesterday...
The Knock at the Door... The Officer telling me there was an Accident...
A Fatality.
Having to call my Mom and tell her that her Daughter was Killed... One of the Worst days of my Life.
Not being able to say Goodbye is Difficult...
So is being Able to.
Don't Know if one is Easier than the other.
My Dad went without Warning and my Mom went VERY Slowly...
So Close together in their Deaths that I don't Think it ever really set in that either is Gone.
And now my Big Sister...
peace...
She is in Hospice Care with Brain and Lung Cancer...
She has very little Time with us left.
My Wife and I have seen a lot of Death in our Families since about 2003.
She Lost her Grandmother here in Denver and then her Father.
Then I Lost a Lifelong Friend just as my Daughter was Born, and then both of my Parents just after my Son was Born...
In the last 2 Weeks her other Grandmother Passed and then one of my Aunts did.
Now my Sister is going to join them.
We told my Daughter that my Sister was "Sick", so she Asked to make her some "Soup" to make her feel better.
If only something Magical like that could happen...
But then again, relatively speaking, the Soup did make my Sister feel better.
My Daughter is only 4 but has a Heart as big as the Earth.
Two Ends of Life...
My Sister was given 5 Months a year and half ago...
She Fought a Courageous Fight against the thing that is Killing her.
A Beautiful and Proud Women, she is...
Like our Mother before her... Until the last week of my Mom's LONG Battle with Illnesses, she was Certain, even at 88, that she was going to beat it.
My Sister is the Same... She's now come to Terms with it, not able to get out of Bed...
It's as Sad as it is Angering...
But we will all go some day.
It's what we do with it while we have it that Matters.
Appreciate the one's you have while you have them.
If not for my Wife and Children I am not Sure how I would have Handled these things.
Because of them, I am Blessed...
I am also Blessed to have Known my Sister for almost 40 Years...
I only Knew my first Sister to Pass for 15 Years...
WAY too Young, she was.
Like it was Yesterday...
The Knock at the Door... The Officer telling me there was an Accident...
A Fatality.
Having to call my Mom and tell her that her Daughter was Killed... One of the Worst days of my Life.
Not being able to say Goodbye is Difficult...
So is being Able to.
Don't Know if one is Easier than the other.
My Dad went without Warning and my Mom went VERY Slowly...
So Close together in their Deaths that I don't Think it ever really set in that either is Gone.
And now my Big Sister...
peace...
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