Mom's on a flight

It's been a very sad week. My 94 year-old Mom is on a flight from which she will never return. We've been doing a bedside vigil for the last 4 days in shifts at the hospice facility and it certainly appears that she will not see the sunlight tomorrow.

My view is that her flight has left and she's now soaring to a place we'd all love to see some day. Mom: Have fun, kiss Pop for me, and thanks for all the wonderful memories!



Mom's plane has landed. She passed away at 4:50 am this morning.

Sorry for the loss Norm..94 eh, sounds like she lived a wonderful life.

Tell Mom, to look for the man in the Ravens sweatshirt, and give him a a hi-5 from me..

cravnravn wrote:Sorry for the loss Norm..94 eh, sounds like she lived a wonderful life.

Tell Mom, to look for the man in the Ravens sweatshirt, and give him a a hi-5 from me..

Ha! Will do. Notice Mom is wearing Colts blue though.

Im sure dad has blue underwear on...Its a funny thing, we Ravens are Colts fans, So Im sure they are getting along...

It's so nice you had such a long time with her. I hope she passed peacefully. Lost my father while under hospice care but my mother is turning 90 shortly. It won't be too long before she catches the same flight, Blue. It would be nice if she made it to 94, like yours.

Its sad Blue that all good things have to come to an end........We all know your pain and the memories will help that go away.........

We know where our loved ones go is a better place for them, yet we're sad. For ourselves? Know that a peace never known before is now hers. I'm sorry for your loss, Norm.

Toughest thing I ever had to do was go visit my dad, Nov of 08, knowing that "this was it" then get on that flight back home knowing that I would never see him again.

I feel for you Mr Bill

Seems a good number of us are at that age where we have to deal with this stuff. Always tough.

I was there when my dad finally let the pain go away. Very tough, even though it was harder seeing him hurt and suffer so much.

My mom, well she seems to have found a new life with her friends on the cul-de-sac down in FL. Doesn't seem (now) to publicly care much about things back here in the winter wonderland. That's tough too... but she'll come around. I hope. I guess one could say its her time to enjoy... sure wish she could get to know my grandkids... and they, her. I fully expect that I'll get a call some day saying "it happened." 50/50 chance that happens, as she's there half the year and here the same - when she's not traveling.

Its inevitable, our faith says we go to a better place, and oftentimes the pain will finally go away. But those that are left still hurt, rather than be happy. Its a wierd thing, being human.

Know that we're all feeling your pain, Magic.

Magic, I understand. When you visit her, even if she does not seem to respond, rest assured that she will know you're there and that you care. The dying - I'm sure they can hear us and feel our presence even if they do not appear to respond. I hope your Mom's comfortable.

Peace.

Magic I feel for yeah pal............
For they have given my Mother 6-12 monts to live........i visit her every weekend and always thinking now if this will be the last.....its never easy,but keep going forward and remember the memories you have........Thats what will keep me going when that time comes.....

And remember everyone on this board is here for you..........

Sorry 'bout that, Blue.


But I don't feel sorry for your mom....she's doing fine. I feel sorry for YOU because you're the one left behind missing her!!

But fear not....you will see her again

Now it's Magic's turn?

I'm already having my own turn with my dad.


The way I look at it, death is a part of life, and since we share life with familiy and friends, we should also share death when the time comes for each of us.