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Its been a long week. Strike that, its been a long 3 years.
It was that long ago that my Dad was diagnosed with cancer.
He passed away this week on Teusday. I think. Everything is running together in my head without a lot of sense.
He was at the hospital, we had admitted him to the transitional care unit the previous Friday. He wasn't able to He was ( Read more... )
Then I saw your posts about your dad's death. My dad died June 30 seven years ago of lung cancer. He, too, was cared for at home for as long as we could until it was just impossible. He, too, was moved in the middle of the night from home to hospice, though the hospice nurses had been paying regular visits for the preceding month. The course of his last week was much the same as for your dad. He held out at the last in order to meet my sister's husband whom he had never met in person. Once they met on the 28th of June, it was enough and he just let go. He was gone two days later.
You have my sincere condolences. I find that some things have faded as far as the medical routines. Other things are still clear and are seen with hindsight almost 20/10. And yet other things only came to mind months or even a year later once the strong emotions calmed down.
Seeing your encouragement and care for A. all this time and now learning of your own loss, I didn't want you to go without receiving encouragement and comfort yourself though it is now over a month after the fact.
Thinking of you.
Bill
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