Comments from Dad

 

“Brenda was so helpful.  She was an angel.  She made things so much easier.  Elaine was so comfortable around her.  She looked after her so well.”

“Elaine was happy until the day she died.  We thought she was going to last a long, long time.  She started feeling a lot better with the feeding tube.  She went down so fast; we did not have a clue.  We were planning on things months down the road.”

“She was worried about the girls (my sisters and I) for a long time, getting the things all sorted out.  I was just doing what she wanted to do.”

“She wanted to die at the Hospice place.  (They would take her over there as things got worse.)  If she would have known she was dying, she would have said something.  She did not want to put a stigma on the house; this is where she died.  She is buried out yonder, because she did not want us to visit her grave all the time.”

"I wish she would have had a dog.   I think it would have been very comforting to her to have a dog.”  He commented that he thought people with a terminal illness should have a dog because they would be comforted by it.