Grieving husband and in-laws

[elijahsmom0105]

I have found myself recently in the position of watching people that I love grieve as they watch a dear woman who is the matriarch of the family, decline in health rather rapidly. She is precious and has brought so much laughter and cheer to so many over the generations that she has nurtured.

She was the one person in my husband's life that he remembers with fondness and stability in the chaos that was his childhood. She was a best friend to her daughter and together they raised my husband to be the upstanding person and amazing father that he is today.

Now she is lying in a coma. There are tubes and needles and tape everywhere. She is weak and stranded in the protection of a "clean room", away from all the people who love her.  And watching things from the outside, I see how fragile these grown men and women are and how broken they have suddenly become. And my heart breaks for them and for grandma.

It has been a sobering moment. I called my own grandma just to tell her that I love her. And I have grabbed my son and held him as close to me as he could possibly be. I have truly been loved and I have truly given love. And that is the sweetness in the midst of grieving people. That is why we go on living, even when it hurts.  

[cmtmom]

Dec. 16, 2007 at 9:30 PM

My prayers are with you and your family. May the Lord bless you, and protect you. May he bring peace to the pain and suffering, and hope to the weary.

My love to you and your family.

[cmtmom]

Dec. 30, 2007 at 8:13 PM I hope that I am not putting my foot in my mouth but....How is Grandma doing?