I was Bedside as my good friend died
Last night was very hard for me! I was at his bedside when he took his last breath and went home to be with the Lord. His Soul entered into eternal life at 11:10 pm. It was hard for me cause so many deaths already in the news then he died from prostate cancer suddenly.
I did visit him at his home on Wednesday while his daughter was here. He looked at me raised his arm, very weak, but could not speak. Instantly he was back to sleep eyes closed. I stayed for an hour or so talking with his daughter about final rights.
The very next day she had him admitted to a nursing home cause she had to return to Virginia. I took her to the airport for her flight back while she told me the plan after his death which she had prepared for when God was ready for him.
About 6pm she called me and said the nursing home said he had turned for the worse and may not make it to morning and asked me if I would go and sit with him, I did because he was my friend.
I took pictures of him struggling to breathe with oxygen attached breathing very loudly like snoring. I let my wife whom were at home hear his breathing I recorded on my phone. That was my first time being bedside as a person dies. It's quite an experience to sit bedside and pray, pray, pray but we all know God has the last say so in our lives when he's ready for us.
In the end of life as we know it peace comes, no more suffering, pains or worries! May God comfort his soul in his life after death. I will attend his memorial services, he will be cremated, after his son arrives here to over see and take care of his final rights including his ashes taken to the national cemetery for veterans.
He retired in 1981 as a SGM E9, THE HIGHEST ENLISTED RANK. We worked at the post office together for years. I was a clerk while he was a letter carrier. He retired from there after I did. We knew each other since 1986, played poker every weekend for years.
We both saw each other with two different wives, both of them died and we married again. He had a girl and boy just like me. I suppose I'm venting, the pressure is so great at the moment, I have to tell somebody and you guys are my extended family members. I talk to you all when I can't talk to my wife. Isn't that something, I think at times we have to get it off our chest.
So, thank for reading and I promise to blog again about happier times and more pleasant things! My final thought is, we have had a stroke but let's live our lives as best we can with what we got left and be happy we are still here.
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