Bad News

[mistressmona]

My grandpa finally lost his battle with lung cancer on Tuesday, Nov 6, 2007. My dad, my uncle, myself and Israel watched him take his last breath about 1:25pm. He will be greatly missed. His funeral and burial will be on Monday, and his obituary will be out on Friday. I'm trying to keep my emotions under control, but its really hard. He was my favorite out of my whole family, and seemed to be the only one who showed my son love. He was a strong man, but in the end too weak to do anything on his own. He was diagnosed with cancer in May, also when I found out to be pregnant. He was given 6-9 months to live, at that time it didn't seem like anything would happen, because at that time he was still running around making the best out of life. However as time passed and as July fell into August his pain and suffering began. He started losing his hair in September, and when that started his will to live diminished. He went into the hospital on Monday, Nov 5th with barely a pulse and very very weak blood pressure. They had to jump start his heart again in the emergency room when it gave up. He was on almost 12 machines, because he was able to do nothing himself. He was on a breathing machine, IV meds like no one's business....etc. He was barely able to get comfortable when Israel and I went to visit him that night. However he was still responsive, and I could see in his eyes that he loved me, but it was time to go. The next day I received a phone call at work from the hospital and ran out the door. It would turn out to be the last time I would see my grandfather alive. They kept him alive until the whole family could say their last goodbyes. At about 12:45pm they took him off his life support and almost an hour later, he passed in his sleep.

Du warst ein wunderbares Opa, aber du bist jetzt die beste Engel.

You were a wonderful Opa, but you are now the best Angel.