My Grandfather is about to pass away

Sorry to hear that.

 

i'm really sorry to hear this. i had a chance to know my great-grandparents on my fathers side, and my parents on my mother's side, and i'm now left with one set. (my dad's parents) but unfortunately they're getting up there in age. it's the natural way of life, it's unfortunate, but it always gets better with time. you and your family have my condolences.

 

Sorry to hear about your Grandfather's condition. Hang in there.

 

Very sorry to hear. Thoughts be with you.

 

Sorry to hear that chris.

 

Our condolences, but as you kow it, that IS life. You are SO lucky though. I never met my Grand Parents on my fathers side and I hardly remember my GP's on my Mom's side, as they passed away when I was about five.

I envy you at 19 and all others that still have their Grand Parents, as I sure would of liked to have remembered mine. The last death in my family was my father 12 years ago on my birthday.

 

Chris, you sound an awful lot like me, I don't cry much. I lost my dad when I was 8 - he had a stroke while we were playing together, I lost my mom 3 years ago, I had 11 aunts and uncles, now I have 1, as you age this happens. And it doesn't get any easier.

One of my uncles that passed away had Alzheimer's, and he was LOADED.
He would find his way to places: he went into a camera store, got to talking with another customer, and bought the guy a $1,000 camera. He went into jewelry stores and bought people watches and jewelry. However, the best one was when he went to a car dealership - THREE of them, and bought and paid for three cars in one weekend. Cash. About a month later, when the cars came in, the dealers were calling him to come and pick up the cars, my Aunt answered the phone, and had no idea..... this was all mid-80's, so a $1,000 camera was a lot of money back then.

There is no worse feeling in the world than being around someone that watched you grow up - babysat you - and 30 years later, they have no idea who you are... it's crushing. Been there.

One thing mom never taught me on was how to deal with death.
When mom died, I wept for a few days, when one of my cats died the day after this past Christmas, I cried my eyes out, how messed up is that ?

 

really sorry to hear that sad story

 

Sorry to hear about your grandpa.

My dad passed away a few months ago. I'm also one of those who rarely cried. Even though I knew he was going downhill the last few years, it hit me hard. I've cried almost every day since.

What doesn't help is my mom has Alzheimers. It's slowly sinking in, but having to tell her every 15-30 minutes dad passed away is tough. Alzheimers s*cks.

For those getting older, do you kids a favor and keep all important papers together. My dad did, but I found a couple of empty folders. Took me a week to find them, my mom buried them in her junk (Alz. at work). And get rid of your junk, going through my parents stuff is one of the hardest things I've done. Too many memories, little things I come across can start the tears flowing again.....

 

Sorry to hear mate.

 

Sorry to hear that Chris. i lost my grandad ( mum's side when i was still a kid, i was 4 ). then i lost my grandad ( dad's side ) when i was 10.

really sorry to hear all of this. but hope u'll be ok mate.

 

Sorry to hear that Chris, I lost my gran last year and myself, my dad and my grampa where all there when she finally passed away. A memory that I will never forget and brings a tear to my eye as i write. I dont think she could have asked for anything better though than to have three generations with her at the time. She suffered from osteoperosis and later when she was in hospital for some two months, they found cancer.

Chin up buddy

Matthew

 

If that is his bedside attitude, you have a great man on your hands and may appreciate a bit more humor from those who visit. May God bless your Grand Father and family.

 

My condolences, Chris.

My grandfather hasn't been doing too well lately, either.

 

One's hearing is the last thing to go. He will hear all that talk to him and go with a smile. He will wait for your Mum.

 

I'm very sorry to hear this, thoughts and prayers are with you...


As my own father lost his battle, you come to realize the finality of human life, sometimes the mind goes, sometimes the body....

Enjoy life, enjoy the memories...

 

A good medical staff will transition his condition from the machine to a peaceful place with proper levels of medication. Not to worry, he will be comfortable.

 

Very sorry to hear that. I was in a similar situation up into my junior year of college (20 years old). I had never been to a funeral up until then, all of my grandparents were around. Then that Oct., my great aunt passed away, 3 weeks later my grandmother passed away (they were sisters, both of them we kind of knew it was coming). My grandmother was deteriorating before our eyes as well, she didn't have alzheimers but cancer which spread to her brain and she really didn't know who we were and couldn't hold any kind of a conversation. She would fall asleep in the middle of eating, it was very sad and I truly do miss her but am greatful for the time I had with her. That following January, my fraternity brother was found dead in his bed (not 100% sure what happened, but it had something to do with an infection and some type of medicine which slowed his heart rate down too much). This was the first time I saw someone in that state in person. Lastly, that summer, my friends father passed away from Lung cancer.

That was a tough year, I must say.

Not to make light of the situation, when we were at my friends fathers funeral in a church (I'm jewish and haven't gone to too many churches, nonetheless funerals. But when the service was over, everyone started turning around saying "Peace be with you" but I had no idea this is what they were saying, so instead I was saying to everyone "Nice to meet you".

Be thankful for the time you have had with him and be sure to spend more time with everyone else.