Tuesday, March 31, 2009

I can blog about this because my blog is only open to my best friends and family. They are giving Grandpa a feeding tube today. They asked Grandma if they should. She said yes. Life is full of really difficult decisions. I often wonder if medical science hasn't gone so far that we extend suffering because we can? Or do we keep people alive because we cannot let them go for a while? Or if we choose to let them go, did we make a mistake when they could have gotten better? I guess time will tell and whatever time tell us in the end, we must always know that we just do the best we can in a time that is so hard we just get through it.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Today is another day sitting in the office. My Father-in-law is really sick. He turns 98 in April. He is a wonderful man. It is interesting watching my cute mother-in-law take care of him. She stays at the hospital night and day. Every once in a while we get her to come stay with us to catch up a little on her sleep. Watching her is a lesson in love and devotion. When we leave with her at night, she tells the nurses to take good care of him, because he is a wonderful man. She will kiss him on the forehead so tenderly. Her neck was sore last night because she had been bent over rubbing his feet to make him feel better. She is 95 and almost blind. I can't tell you how much I love them. I can hardly think of saying good by to them for a moment in time, but I really do not want Fred (My Father-in-law to suffer at all.) Live is always full of change.