well, she died today

I am sorry to hear your news as not matter what the age of a loved one passing we still wish for years to love them.

Wishing you peace in the good memories that you have and a journey of light for your grandmother.

 

I do not know you only from your posts, though I want to say I am sorry for you loss, and am glad you did get to pay your last respects before she passed. 101 years is a long life, with the guy outside her room spinning in circles and the goings on at the nursing home probably really got on her nerves and made her tired and wanting to rest in a better place.

 

My condolences on your loss. It sounds your Great Grandmother was the sort of person that her presence was a joy and an uplifting experience. 101 years wasn't a long enough life.

 

I'm sorry to hear about your Grandma.. I'm a little sensitive to that stuff right now. Tomorrow it will be 7 years that I lost my Mom. She didn't make it past 58.

I wish you and your family peace.

 

I'm sorry for your loss Trish. Even when loved ones are very old and it can be viewed as a blessing when they find internal rest - its still very very sad.

 

Im sorry to hear about your great grandmother Trish, sounds like she had a nice full life. Now she wont have to experience anymore pain. If you ever need me you know how to contact me. Love yaz.

 

makes me wonder how long my grandmother will live. she is 94 and still living strong (well I mean she lives at home still)...

her dad lived to the age of 99. I even remember when he was alive. (I was just a young buck)

101 years is a long time..... hell she was old enough to remember the titanic

 

she could have been old enough to remember halleys comet when it passed by in 1910... did she ever say anything about that?? I remember asking a neighbour lady about halleys comet when she saw it in 1910.... I think she was around 8 years old, or so... this was the same year halleys comet came back (1986).

 

thanks again everyone. yeah, it still hurts. i just cried outside for about a half hour... about that and the lose of my car and everything... i havent cried in about three months so it felt so good. i was all tense before then in my shoulders and now it is gone.

ryan, i never asked her about haley's comet but im sure she remembers. before she had her stroke, she had a GREAT memory and could communicate it well.

 

i'm sorry for your loss. it makes it easier not to dwell on her death, but to celebrate her life and remember the fun times you had with her. i know it made it easier for me when my great-grandma past last year...around this time. she was 96 i believe. but yea, sorry for your loss, its hard.

 

I don't know how much easier it makes it to celebrate someone's life. I lost my grandpa ten days ago and everyday my thoughts are filled with him and though I had been wanting this for him for a long time as he had been suffering for the last two years in a nursing home - his body ravaged by diabetes, I still long for one last time with him, to see his smile, hear him laugh. I withstood the greatest pain of my life that found me in the emergency room hooked up to morphine the day after christmas just to see him on christmas day and feed him his dinner and share a few laughs. At the funeral my aunt gave me a picture of him and I when I was maybe five years old and I just can't help looking at it and wishing I could turn back the clock and live that time again.

Again, I'm sorry for your loss trish, I know how you feel.

 

thanks ryan. im sorry for your loss too. i guess what makes this a bit harder for me was.. she never had ANY disease until now, altho she has been acting "old" the past two years... before then, she really didnt.