Taffy Stoker > wrote in
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> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:27:20 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>"jmcquown" > wrote in
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>>
>>> Taffy Stoker wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:19:02 -0600, "jmcquown"
>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I feel for you. My grandmother refused to let the "meals on
>>>>> wheels" people into her home. She said she didn't like their
>>>>> "looks" (whatever that meant).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just her way of saying she did not want strangers in her home.
>>>> My mother was the same way from time to time.
>>>
>>> Yes. But did your grandmother starve herself to death? My dad and
>>> his sister went up to her home in Ohio and discovered she couldn't
>>> even get up the stairs to her bedroom; she was sleeping on the sofa.
>>> And she couldn't get to the bathroom, either. They ordered "Meals
>>> on Wheels" as a way to help her without having to put her in a home.
>>> When that didn't work, they moved her to an elderly care facility.
>>> She wouldn't eat there, either. She died about 6 weeks later.
>>
>>Maybe she was just "ready" to go.
>
> For some it is quite like that. They just somehow know thier time is
> soon and begin to shut down physically.

I saw my dad on the day of the night he passed away. He had a heart
problem, but had been in apparently the same condition for some months
and didn't appear to be feeling any worse. He was up and about and
joked at the dinner table. Later that night he passed away from
congestive heart failure.

My mother and I did not know that earlier that same day he told several
neighbors "goodbye" for the final time, saying that he wouldn't be
seeing them again. He must ahve felt or known something, but didn't
want to worry my mother or me.

Wayne