So sorry, brother, my condolences. I lost my dad last year.
My condolences to you too, Steve.
It will be an adjustment for sure, but in many ways for me, it has already begun to lift a lifetime of weight off my shoulders, mind and heart.
Our dad had a rough childhood which he then brought into marriage to our mom, and then carried on his troubled upbringing as he passed on his father's meanness to my mom, sis and me. From the day he came home from work to find me alone that fateful day when I was roughly 8 years old, my dad was "afflicted" with the first mentally ill episode we would see him experience. So, for the next 52 years, we would always have to help him manage that, plus deal with it during any recurrence.
Since 2018, as a wheelchair bound senior, he was hindered but mostly functional with help from us or help from caregivers, and lastly in a fine Assisted Living home. At the hospital the past few days for breathing concerns, his passing was sudden, quick and a mercifully fatal event with his heart. I do thank God that our dad didn't have any prolonged and tough to suffer through barely there existence. According to the account from the Doctor and Nurse who were with him in his last hours, he was essentially talking, eating, acting normally all morning and the first 40 minutes of the afternoon, and then suddenly, he want blank, unresponsive, and his heart raced and then just stopped and was unable to restart.
I couldn't ask for a more simple and easy way for him to go.
Thanks guys for letting me share.
