The end is near, I think
Apr. 30th, 2002 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeDefinitely the end of a large period in my life. My grandfather is agonising. Waiting for my father to come, I think. He was semi–comatose when we went to see him. He reacted a bit when he heard my father's name, at least he blinked and made some kind of sign of recognition.
He's not suffering, which is a relief. It's pretty much a matter of hours now, and he'll just quietly slip away. At least, that's what the nurse said. It was very hard to see him like that. When I was small he was still very strong and energetic, and to see him so diminished and weak, almost translucent and struggling for every breath, was devastating.
My grandfather was no saint, not by any stretch of the imagination, but he's still a human being, and the last twenty years of his life I think were extremely sad, especially after his wife died, though she suffered horribly during her own lifetime.
I can only hope he'll be happy wherever he's going.
He's not suffering, which is a relief. It's pretty much a matter of hours now, and he'll just quietly slip away. At least, that's what the nurse said. It was very hard to see him like that. When I was small he was still very strong and energetic, and to see him so diminished and weak, almost translucent and struggling for every breath, was devastating.
My grandfather was no saint, not by any stretch of the imagination, but he's still a human being, and the last twenty years of his life I think were extremely sad, especially after his wife died, though she suffered horribly during her own lifetime.
I can only hope he'll be happy wherever he's going.
