Monday was the one year anniversary of Paul’s dad’s passing… from here to his new home in heaven:)
I knew the “anniversary date” was coming, but when the day came it took a few hours for the reality to “sink in”.
My father-in-law’s death was not a surprise. He was on dialysis and made the hard decision to discontinue. We knew the end was coming, but would it be a few days after his last dialysis… would it be 2 weeks? Would there be a mind-boggling, straight from the hands of God miracle and he’d be totally healed instead?
Three days before he passed, Jim had one of those “spurts of energy” that I now know often happen to very ill people who are close to death. He took off to the local football field (in his motorized wheelchair!) to chat with the football coaches and watch a bit of the practice. All who watched this man who was so ill and so sick were flabbergasted. No… Confused!
After this “event’ my husband decided to come home for a night - or two. He had been living with my in-laws for over a month… He missed home and it was so hard not having him here. It seemed maybe “the end” wasn’t as close as anticipated. However, the next afternoon, my husband got a call from his sister. It was the “get here now” call. Continue reading ‘One Year Later’
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