Claire
Active member
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2010
- Messages
- 31
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 11/2009
- Country
- US
- State
- NJ
- City
- Whitehouse Station
My husband of almost 41 years, my high school sweetheart, my buddy, is sitting in the palm of His hand. Greg passed away peacefully with my and our daughter's hands holding on to his, and with his long time friend next to him. He has left a wonderful legacy of courage, honesty, integrity, humor, trust and industry. We were blessed with a granddaughter a month before Greg was diagnosed in November of 2009. Our youngest daughter who is in the foreign service, made it up here from Nicaragua four days before he passed, and the last thing that he tried to "mouth" was "congratulations" when she told us that she and her husband were expecting a baby in October. Our oldest daughter and her husband are expecting another child in July, so both girls told him that when he gets to heaven he's going to have his hands full watching over the three little munchkins - and that was the last time that he smiled.
My buddy managed to give me one last gift before he left. The hospice nurses told me that he probably wouldn't last through the night. So I cuddled up next to him and I was able to talk to him throughout the night. That one last night was just so precious to me. Our priest came to our home for one last visit on the following morning, and by the afternoon, Greg was ready to take his final journey. On some level, I feel as if I'm back to the beginning of the diagnosis - I just can't beleve that this has happened to us. What a courageous man he was to face this disease head-on - and what a courageous man he was to have me transfer him in the Hoyer lift! Facing this disease we did a lot together - we cried a lot, we laughed a lot, we prayed a lot, and we loved a lot, and in the end, I guess those are the things that mattered to us. I 'm sure that Greg traveed first class to heaven after living with ALS.
"Love bears all, believes all, hopes all and endures all. Love never fails." Corinthians 13
God bless Greg's soul, and God bless all of you.
Love,
Claire
My buddy managed to give me one last gift before he left. The hospice nurses told me that he probably wouldn't last through the night. So I cuddled up next to him and I was able to talk to him throughout the night. That one last night was just so precious to me. Our priest came to our home for one last visit on the following morning, and by the afternoon, Greg was ready to take his final journey. On some level, I feel as if I'm back to the beginning of the diagnosis - I just can't beleve that this has happened to us. What a courageous man he was to face this disease head-on - and what a courageous man he was to have me transfer him in the Hoyer lift! Facing this disease we did a lot together - we cried a lot, we laughed a lot, we prayed a lot, and we loved a lot, and in the end, I guess those are the things that mattered to us. I 'm sure that Greg traveed first class to heaven after living with ALS.
"Love bears all, believes all, hopes all and endures all. Love never fails." Corinthians 13
God bless Greg's soul, and God bless all of you.
Love,
Claire