by CorComm | Oct 31, 2014 | Dying Parents
Lessons Learned IIMy husband summed up his thoughts in the last Caregiver’s Diary on what he has learned about death and the dying over the last two years, as he lost his mother and father. My father, Gordon, passed away on October 27, 2011, and has also been...
by CorComm | Oct 31, 2014 | Dying Parents
Lessons LearnedI have been chronicling the deaths of my mother, my father-in-law and my father for the last 2 years. I have learned some things about death during that time, and it’s appropriate that I share them here.Dying Is Hard WorkIt takes effort to die. Getting...
by CorComm | Oct 31, 2014 | Dying Parents
A Golden Exit“Happy New Year! You made it to 2013”. Donald Corbett, my widowed 89 year old father said “I wish I hadn’t”. “Don’t worry, I’m sure you won’t see 2014”. “Oh God, I hope not” Dad said.There had been a swift change on the care front. We had convened a...
by CorComm | Oct 31, 2014 | Dying Parents
Another AftermathStories and memories of my widowed 89 year old father started pouring in by e-mail and phone the day after he died, prompted by a posting on Facebook of a lovely picture of him in his last weeks, still smiling and still hale.Many of the messages had...
by CorComm | Oct 31, 2014 | Dying Parents
A Very Difficult ConversationAn e-mail from youngest sister late at night to youngest brother and me. Our 89 year old widowed father had fallen again; presented himself to the night nurse covered in blood, then denied it had happened the next day. Could we do a...
by CorComm | Oct 31, 2014 | Dying Parents
PatienceI’m not my 89 year old widowed father’s caregiver, I’m just an occasional visitor, and a voice at the end of the phone. Youngest sister is his caregiver, and she sees him frequently and, until recently, took him out for lunch. What she has in abundance is...
