April 10, 2007

• Early Easter Sunday morning we got a call from my brother-in-law saying that my mother had suffered cardiac arrest.  She was in a rehabilitation center recovering from a minor stroke.  She went to bed in a good mood, having walked down the hall and fed herself.  She was moved from her private room because of a water leak and ended up with a very sweet young woman with cerebral palsy.  The talked and giggled until midnight.  She went to sleep and was sleeping peacefully when the nurse checked on her at 5:00.  When they returned at 5:45, she had stopped breathing.  They tried CPR, but it was already too late. 

  It sounds so flat to say that she will be missed.  Of course, she will!  She lived a long and productive life, and death is inevitable for us all.  In her case, I am very grateful that she died at a hospital and not at home where her grandson or daughter would have found her.  I am grateful that she didn’t suffer.  She just woke up in Heaven, in time for the sunrise service too!  The very best Easter service of all, isn’t it?  I do hope that when my time comes that it will be peaceful too and that I will be missed and remembered.

  

  This is one of the last pictures of her we took.  She was holding her latest great-grandson and singing “Jesus Love Me” to him.  She told him that she had sung it to all her children, her grandchildren and now to him.  A few hours she suffered a minor stroke that ended her in the hospital.  She was 88 years old.

  

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