When we first had to tell my son that his beloved grandmother was dying he was 5 and a half years old. The only way I could think of to express maybe months, maybe a year, was to tell him that while she would probably live to see him be 6, we didn't have much hope that she'd make it to see him turn 7.
When Christmas 2009 passed March 30th became her new goal.
We never told my mom about what we'd told him, though I suspected she knew. More than once he broke down and tried to get her to promise that she'd come to his 7th birthday party. It was obviously more to him than regular birthday milestone.
After she made it past the hurdles of mid-February, the days where we thought she wouldn't make it through the night, I found myself worrying about the worst case scenario.
Please not near his birthday. A two week cushion, minimum, is not too much to ask for, right?
On Saturday the hospice nurses volunteered that my mom has taken a final turn, one that suggests she has reached her final 48-72 hours.
On Tuesday my little boy turns 7.
Please let them be wrong.
2 comments:
Oh gosh. I'm so sorry. Truly hoping they're wrong as well.
It might just be the situation you're in, but I have to say that you have a way with words. You (and your hubby) always seem to use just the right amount of explanation to make your posts the most effective. The last two lines of this post could bring anyone to tears. Hugs. And I'm hoping their wrong too.
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