Sad News
In December of 2009, I met my great-uncle H for the first time. I got in contact with him via Facebook the previous summer. We have kept in touch via FB and he invited me to his home on Xmas to meet him and his family. He came down here last fall to visit with me and meet my siblings and stepmom.
I really can't describe enough what a nice man he is. He is kind and sweet and loving. He loves me just because I am me. He opened his heart to me immediately. He was sweet and kind and wanted to know me because I was his brother's grandchild. He has been so good, so charming and loving and happy.
He spent December of 2010 hospitalized with an infection that they couldn't track down. I was worried because at his age, people sometimes get an infection like this and then just die suddenly. R and I visited him in hospital on Xmas and he was improving, he just hated to be in the bed. I was still worried, but around January 2 he was discharged. He went home and was doing ok, was going to physical therapy to recover from spending a month in bed with an infection.
At the end of January he went back into the hospital. He has pneumonia. He also has only one working kidney, and last week it started failing. He was put on dialysis and the last update I had was that the dialysis was helping him, including improving his breathing. I thought he would come home again soon. I have been sending messages to him and his family on FB sending my love.
What I didn't know was that last week, I guess shortly after he was placed on dialysis, he became unconscious. He was put on a ventilator. Tonight my sister CL told me that H's granddaughter messaged her and said that tonight they are taking him off the ventilator and are letting him go. They say it could be hours or weeks.
I had no idea it was that bad. I messaged his granddaughter and that's how I found out about the last week, that he had been unconscious.
I asked his daughter K to please tell him that I love him. I think that even unconscious, maybe he can hear her.
I can't describe to you how kind this man is. He is sweet, he is loving, he was absolutely welcoming to me from day 1. He told me stories about my grandfather and my dad. I just can't tell you how lovely a surprise it was to have him and his family come into my life so openly, so lovingly.
I have been crying off and on all evening... I can push it away sometimes but when I think about him again I just lose it :(
I really can't describe enough what a nice man he is. He is kind and sweet and loving. He loves me just because I am me. He opened his heart to me immediately. He was sweet and kind and wanted to know me because I was his brother's grandchild. He has been so good, so charming and loving and happy.
He spent December of 2010 hospitalized with an infection that they couldn't track down. I was worried because at his age, people sometimes get an infection like this and then just die suddenly. R and I visited him in hospital on Xmas and he was improving, he just hated to be in the bed. I was still worried, but around January 2 he was discharged. He went home and was doing ok, was going to physical therapy to recover from spending a month in bed with an infection.
At the end of January he went back into the hospital. He has pneumonia. He also has only one working kidney, and last week it started failing. He was put on dialysis and the last update I had was that the dialysis was helping him, including improving his breathing. I thought he would come home again soon. I have been sending messages to him and his family on FB sending my love.
What I didn't know was that last week, I guess shortly after he was placed on dialysis, he became unconscious. He was put on a ventilator. Tonight my sister CL told me that H's granddaughter messaged her and said that tonight they are taking him off the ventilator and are letting him go. They say it could be hours or weeks.
I had no idea it was that bad. I messaged his granddaughter and that's how I found out about the last week, that he had been unconscious.
I asked his daughter K to please tell him that I love him. I think that even unconscious, maybe he can hear her.
I can't describe to you how kind this man is. He is sweet, he is loving, he was absolutely welcoming to me from day 1. He told me stories about my grandfather and my dad. I just can't tell you how lovely a surprise it was to have him and his family come into my life so openly, so lovingly.
I have been crying off and on all evening... I can push it away sometimes but when I think about him again I just lose it :(