August 12, 2007
Papaw, August 7, 2007
He ate another push up, but he wasn't able to hold it for himself this time.. so I didn't get any pics of him eating it, because I was feeding it to him. I did get some other photos though...
Maegan went in and Mom tried to get her to give Papaw a high 5.. Papaw held up his hand, but Maegan wouldn't do it.. I don't know why because she always did before, but this time, she just backed away, wouldn't give him 5. She did however give him a kiss...
I went outside on the back patio for a while, and lo and behold, what was on the wire? Three doves. Three. Two at the hospital, and I related them to Midge and Jean coming to get Dad. I tried to run them of and they wouldn't go. Now there were 3.. Midge, Jean and Dad? Yeah, you know that thought had to go through my mind..
I went in and sat with him a while, tried to get him to talk with me, but he said he couldn't. I commented to Mom as she came in to check on him.. he doesn't want to talk with me.. he said, No, that's not what I said, I said I can't talk with you.. he made sure we understood that he wanted to but just felt like he was too tired. Mom left and he told me to bring my chair close to his bed.. when I asked why, he said he wanted me to talk to him.. so I did put my chair there, and I asked him what he wanted to talk about.. he said anything, that he just wanted me to talk about anything, but he just wanted to listen, he didn't want to do the talking. He told me he loved me a couple of times, then he just turned his eyes to the window and listened while I talked about things the girls do, about the weather.. just idle chit chat.
This is the last picture I took of Papaw while he was with us.
Hospice came on the 8th, and Papaw passed away at 5:31 on August the 9th. We had his funeral yesterday at 4:00. Good night Papaw, sleep sweet.
Posted by juel at August 12, 2007 02:15 AM