Wednesday is Hospice visit day. The nurse will be here at 12:30 to check on Warren and order the medications that we're starting to run low on. After that, I have a busy afternoon of shopping for groceries so I don't have to go again until AFTER Christmas, going to the bank, getting a hair cut and taking Warren to get his hair cut.
His condition seems to be stable at the moment which is a good thing. His pain is mostly under control and we don't see anything new that has cropped up in the last week. We've settled into a routine (well I've settled into a routine...which I've been avoiding ever since I retired) of going to bed early and getting up at 8:00 a.m. I really have to do this so that I can fix his breakfast around 8:30 and he can take his morning pain meds. We are just enjoying being together. This may be the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
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Its hard just to read..Hugs..
ReplyDeleteYou are a beautiful couple, so much love and caring.
ReplyDeleteYou're in my heart and always on my mind - big hugs to you both.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone.
ReplyDeleteAlthough some think routines are boring I find them to be comfortable living. Good to hear Warren is stable. How did your hair cut turn out? There is nothing like a new hair cut. Prayers are on the wind that you may have a Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI recently helped by mother through hospice with my stepfather. The hospice nurses and aides were fantastic, and everything was dignified and peaceful. Peace be your journey.
ReplyDeleteim so sorry sweety. it may be the hardest thin you have ever done but I'm sure it means the world to Warren.
ReplyDeleteLiving in the present.. enjoying what is now. That's the mantra! Hugs.
ReplyDeleteThanks again everyone.
ReplyDeleteNym the haircut was a trim so no major change there...just upkeep.
My prayers are a bit rusty but I am polishing them off for you.
ReplyDeleteCheryl- of COURSE this is the hardest thing you've had to do. While death is universal and inevitable, it is not natural. God did not intend the soul to be separated from the body any more than He intended the husband to be separated from the wife.
ReplyDeleteBennett- don't worry about how "rusty" your prayers are. One of the best and most apt passages for both you and Cheryl, and indeed all others who look at this situation and say "Wow, I'll pray, but wow, what do I pray" is
Rom 8: 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. (NIV)
So you see, Cheryl- all creation joins in groaning and weeping with you about this... and though words may and indeed do fail, even as sadly and ultimately hearts and lungs and livers do too, God and His love do not.
Thank you Peter, that helps.
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