FInal Request

I spent some time with an older friend (I'll call her "Jill") this week. She lives by herself now, and we have not seen each other for several years. Her husband died earlier this year after a long illness. In his last few months, he was moved into a nursing facility for round the clock care.

While we were chatting, I asked Jill about caring for her husband for many years and what stood out in her noble service to him as he died. She replied,

"I think he knew he was going to die on the day he did. I sat with him in his room and we were reminiscing about our 50 years of marriage. He looked at me and asked, 'Honey, will you just lie next to me in the bed here for a few minutes?' So I got in the nursing home bed alongside him, and we held each other for a little while."

"We reminisced about the first bed we shared after our marriage. It was just a twin bed. And we laughed and remembered that   >>>>>   Read Entire Post