Happy Birthday, Dad
Yesterday would have been my dad's 93rd birthday. My niece posted a beautiful picture of him, dancing with her, on Facebook. I wanted to "like" it. I wanted to say something like, wish you were here. Something like, if he were here today, we would
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My mom passed at 88 from the complications of 5 years of Dementia and Alzheimer's. I was her care-giver every single day, for 27 months! I was able to retire and keep her at home.
I understand how we want to keep them with us, but the tragedy of the disease... and the release from it was a blessing for her. She suffered a lot, the last 8 months.
As for my Dad, he passed just short of his 70th with multi complications. If you go to my journal, rymrytr you can read the poem I made for him, a few months before he left us. It's titled "To and For My Dad". :o)
If you can't see it, I can send it to you in a LiveJournal message.
Keep the good memories alive and let the others go.
RymRytr
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