On Monday September 16th my dad passed away peacefully at home surrounded by me, my mom, my twin sister, my brother, his wife and his little dog, Nellie. I can only describe his passing as beautiful and amazing. My mom was at work. My brother had just left the house to go to work. My twin and I were in his room with him because we had someone with him 24/7. I was holding his hand and noticed that it was starting to get cold so I told my sister to call my brother and get him to come back and I called my mom. My son came home from school and I got him up to give his grandpa, the person who has basically been his father all his life (he is 14), one last kiss. When I brought him and my nephew back downstairs, my 3yr old daughter said she wanted to go see grandpa. (Both of my children have lived with my dad since birth) When she went up, she climbed into his bed, hugged and kissed him. She hopped down, turned back and said, I love you grandpa. He took one more short breath and passed. It was so peaceful that all of us in the room were in disbelief that, that was it.
I have not been on this site in such a long time bc I have been dad's main care giver. He was on hospice for 5 months and went chemo free for almost nine. He fought so hard.
Here is his obituary
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wellsv ... bLoggedOutAfter about an hour of spending time with dad after his passing, I was sitting at the table with my family. I had gotten out my laptop to find a picture of dad for the write up in the paper. I rarely ever use my laptop bc I have an ipad. Anyway, I went to burn the pics to a cd and when I opened the cd rom, there was another cd in there. It was unlabeled. I set it aside and burned the pics. Then I got curious so I put the other cd back in. On the screen popped a thing that said track1 and when I pressed play, it was my dad singing a beautiful song. To me, that was his sign to me that he had made it to the other side and that he was ok.
here is the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBYz24p78IWords can not describe how I feel. All I know is that the world will never be the same with out him. My life will never be the same. I have lost my best friend. The person who knew me and understood me bc he was just like me. I am going to miss him for the rest of my life but, I know some day we will be together again.
Here is a slideshow I made in memory of my dad, my best friend, my angel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hKfCpQrGYOne more thing I would like to say is that I am so thankful to be a member of this club. You all have helped me to be able to help my dad through all that he went through. I learned so much here and I hope to be able to pass on the knowledge and help others in return.