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Cheers
Give a Cheer
Give a Cheer
This LO was completed for a challenge at Faith Sisters. It was to discuss your challenges of 2007.
The journaling approximates the following:
If someone had told me the extent of loss in my family in 2007, I would not have imagined it to be true. My Aunt passed away in April from cancer. Little did I know at that time I was to lose one of the most influential and important people in my life later in the year, my dad.
My mom passed away in 1994, when I was just 31. I was the first person in my circle of friends to lose a parent. I really felt like a loner. My mom wasn’t there for my marriage or the birth of my son. I didn’t get to shop for wedding dresses with her or talk about baby care.
I have always been close to my dad. We talked on the phone each night at 7:00 p.m. Nothing really deep, but what was “exciting” about the day. The little things like snow, sunshine, Preston’s accomplishments and how he grew to look more like his grandpa each day.
I knew that he was ill from his prostate cancer, but he never complained. Just a “Tylenol” for pain. When I was up in Bellingham at Lummi for the Board meeting he fell twice. Little did I know that he would pass just a few days later. I will always be grateful to his “Visiting Angel” for telling Gertrude to call us to come. That little acknowledgment on Saturday before he passed was wonderful for Preston and Jim. I was blessed to stay and sit at his bedside while he died. I felt good to know I was able to give him as much dignity as he passed as I could. I wiped his face and made sure he was dressed when they took him to the funeral home. God gave me a gift to be able to minister to my dad. He died at home, where he wished to be. He was almost sitting up, although he wasn’t able to be in his chair as he wished.
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