Tag: death
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Death is in my house.
I can feel it. Sometimes it stops me short and I can’t breathe. Like now. He is no longer drinking much water. Just enough to take his pills. He hasn’t eaten in a month. And yet, he talks to me. Yesterday he said, “Who wants to go in the pool?” I told him the water…
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I sat outside tonight for a few minutes. Jim’s been going to bed earlier and earlier, so I took advantage of this to enjoy the transition of the sun making its way down, hiding behind a housetop across the street and leaving behind pink and yellow sky that lasted only minutes before turning to darkness.…
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Is he, or is he not dying? Yes.
THIS IS REALITY I teeter back and forth about how and when to start letting go. He did not qualify for hospice after the in-home evaluation a month ago. They said he was close, but they needed to see more indicators to put him over the edge. So, he needs to get worse in order…
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A Tribute to a Remarkable Woman
When I think of the perfect timing of God, and the gifts He drops divinely in our laps, I think of Betty. She came into my life 28 years ago. I was pregnant with her son’s child. He and I were not married but planned to be. Until she stopped me in my tracks. “You…
The Joy of Rambling 