Heaven Gained an Angel Today

Mom passed away early this morning here at home surrounded by her family. Although she will be missed, we're feeling somewhat of a sigh of relief. She fought a hard battle and lived her life with grace and dignity through to the end. We know she is happy, healthy and perfect. She joined God and her beloved grandparents today and you just can't help but smile when you think she's in heaven now.  I'm sure she was greeted with open arms filled with hugs and so much love. 

The last few weeks were hard for her. She kept on telling us the past few months that she has the easy part, but what she endured these last few weeks certainly wasn't easy. 

Now to celebrate her life, look to move ahead, and mourn the loss of a truly amazing daughter, friend, mother, grandmother and wife. We'll miss her dearly as I know many of you will. We'll remember her and celebrate what she brought to us here on earth. Although so young and so much (I believe) still to give, the memories and all she taught me (and many others) will continue to be shared. Her purpose, her life will continue to impact so many...

Arrangements for the funeral service and visitation are being arranged by Gass-Haney.  You can read her obituary here.

Not to be overlooked

Thank you to everyone for your continued support to us these past few months. The food, sparkly stars chimes, prayers, cards, love, phone calls, and visits were everywhere we looked. For that, we thank you, truly thank you.

HOME AGAIN...

Mom did come home today; we're glad that she's here. She wanted to come back here so this is where she needs to be.  She's settled in again for the most part, however, it's been a rough day & last night.

She's been pretty restless and can't get relaxed. She says she's not in pain so we're relieved about that. We're trying to manage some of the anxiety and restlessness with some medicine.

We're hoping she rests better here as this can't be much fun for her.

Again, we can't thank you enough for all of the love, support and prayers. Please continue to send prayers for strength, peace, love, trust, and some much needed rest right now.

To the Hospital, again...

On Sunday morning, early AM, Tim took Mom to the hospital because of the pain again. Unfortunately, it had so quickly went up in the pain level that Mom requested they try the ER to see what they could do. She had been in pain, then comfortable and back & forth a few too many times since Tuesday and was tired of it. Understandable... we just can't know how bad the pain is. She has a high tolerance for pain so you know when it hurts that much, it's really bad.

In the ER they tried a quick release pain medicine that didn't even touch the pain. She was admitted to the Columbus Hospital about 11am on Sunday morning where they made the decision to change the type of morphine she has been on.  Finally by ~7pm that evening, she got some relief and has been comfortable ever since.

The plan is for her to come home tomorrow. We will see what the doctors/hospice care team think after things play out tonight. We're hopefully she'll get to come as tonight she was rested well today and was pretty alert again and moving around a little bit.

At this point, we're asking for just family to visit. Because the pain medicine requires that she stays relaxed and cannot get over anxious, we can't risk that she will again be in pain. It's too much and unfair for her to suffer.  If she becomes tense, anxious, or even starts fighting sleep she'll become agitated and restless and that is usually what leads to the pain if she can't settle down. We will for sure update here if anything changes with the visitors.

We know and it brings me (us) so much comfort knowing how many people are pulling for her, sending love, prayers, and all that you have done for my parents these last few weeks and really the last few years. We can't thank you enough. 

Keep the prayers coming....