On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > > Ah geez. Sorry to hear that Gene. My condolences. > > > I have expected it for 10+ years Mark. She's 85 or 86, and had a stroke > that took 99% of her speech not too ling after Linda was born, and thats > now pushing 50 years ago. So life has not exactly been a bed of roses, > and now alzheimers has also set in. Her husband has made sure she was > well taken care of all these years, till he had a stroke and lost his > right side about a decade ago. He still tries, but what he can do from > a wheelchair is limited. Basically, its time. > > And at 80yo myself, and having already had that scare a year ago, I am > well aware that none of us is going to live forever. I just hope we can > get there in time to say goodby, like I did with my oldest daughter in > 2007. She had not been told that she was terminal, but my last > conversation with her as I was clearing out like 3 day old fish, was > that none of us had a guarantee of tomorrow. Took me most of 3 days to > get home where Dee was beginning to need help, so as soon as I'd had a > night in my own bed, we went to NY. She passed that night, at about 3 > am my time. Something woke me up and I could have sworn someone was > standing at the foot of the couch I was crashed on, but there was > nothing or no one there. Her husband called at 10ish the next morning > to tell me, and I asked what time, 2 his time which would have been > right on the money. Connect the dots, she woke me up as her way of > saying goodbye. > > So this time I hope we aren't too late to say goodbye. Sadly, I missed > that by a day when my other, younger daughter died, and I still beat me > up over that. Still working then , it took a day & change to get > extricated from the tv station so I could leave for a week, and I got > there in time for the services. No chance to give her that final hug... > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > We just went through that with my Mom. She had Alzheimers for a number of years, and it got worse after my Dad passed on a few years back. Mom passed away this past January, not really knowing what year it was, where she was, or who she was talking to. Really sucks. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
