justusnak
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Oh Pam, sweetie, I am so very sorry. Please know I have your mom and you all in my prayers. 
To you all...during this hard time.
To you all...during this hard time.
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lalaland
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prayers for you and your family coming now. take care of yourself, and be especially gentle with yourself now, too.
ksalvagno
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My deepest sympathy to you and your family. You will be in my prayers.
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Beekissed
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Pam, I'm sure sorry. 
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What happened:
My mom, a friend from church, and I were down to Berlin, Ohio for a Quilt shop hop. We had planned this over two months ago. We had just found an AWESOME bakery that someone had told us about while we were at Miller's Dry goods (a quilt store). As I was checking out my step sister called and said for me to get my mom home right away because he was unresponsive. He had been up and had walked Wednesday evening and assured my mom that she should go on our quilting trip. Thursday morning he had been up and walking also. They even wrote on his board "No shortness of breath, Up to activity". Melissa, my step sister, had talked with him before lunch and he said the Spiritual Lady had been in to see him and he told her he was saved. (The Spiritual Lady is the Spiritual Care advisor at the hospital, apparently they are no longer called Chaplin's.) Melissa asked him if he had asked Jesus into his heart and he said yes. Then she asked him if he had repented of his sins and he said yes. A very short while later she went to lunch and the nurses got him up to go to the bathroom. While in the bathroom he passed out and they could not get him to come back to. They worked on him for an hour. Then he was gone just before 2pm. We got the call from Melissa around 1pm and made it back to the hospital around 3pm. Several of the family members had gathered by then. The hospital let us stay in the room with him as long as we wanted to. The funeral home did not come and get him until around 6:30.
I went in the room and then took my friend back to her car around 4pm and then went to tell the kids. My 8 yo asked to go to the hospital and see him so we took the kids down so he could. The other kids did not want to go in. My 8 yo knew that he had passed before I even said anything to them! I asked the kids to come into the living room (they were at my MIL's because my mom and I had gone away for the day) and told them I had something to tell them and my 8yo said "Grandpa died?" Then he asked to go see him.
Please continue to pray for my family.
I am going to ask my mom to keep all of his shirts so we can make memory bears for the grandchildren.
My mom, a friend from church, and I were down to Berlin, Ohio for a Quilt shop hop. We had planned this over two months ago. We had just found an AWESOME bakery that someone had told us about while we were at Miller's Dry goods (a quilt store). As I was checking out my step sister called and said for me to get my mom home right away because he was unresponsive. He had been up and had walked Wednesday evening and assured my mom that she should go on our quilting trip. Thursday morning he had been up and walking also. They even wrote on his board "No shortness of breath, Up to activity". Melissa, my step sister, had talked with him before lunch and he said the Spiritual Lady had been in to see him and he told her he was saved. (The Spiritual Lady is the Spiritual Care advisor at the hospital, apparently they are no longer called Chaplin's.) Melissa asked him if he had asked Jesus into his heart and he said yes. Then she asked him if he had repented of his sins and he said yes. A very short while later she went to lunch and the nurses got him up to go to the bathroom. While in the bathroom he passed out and they could not get him to come back to. They worked on him for an hour. Then he was gone just before 2pm. We got the call from Melissa around 1pm and made it back to the hospital around 3pm. Several of the family members had gathered by then. The hospital let us stay in the room with him as long as we wanted to. The funeral home did not come and get him until around 6:30.
I went in the room and then took my friend back to her car around 4pm and then went to tell the kids. My 8 yo asked to go to the hospital and see him so we took the kids down so he could. The other kids did not want to go in. My 8 yo knew that he had passed before I even said anything to them! I asked the kids to come into the living room (they were at my MIL's because my mom and I had gone away for the day) and told them I had something to tell them and my 8yo said "Grandpa died?" Then he asked to go see him.
Please continue to pray for my family.
I am going to ask my mom to keep all of his shirts so we can make memory bears for the grandchildren.
Henrietta23
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i_am2bz
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So very sorry for your loss.
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Praying for your mother, you, and your family. It is a comfort to know we will see them again someday, but there is still the loss here and now. I'm glad to hear the immediate finances can be taken of, but I hope you all can find comfort.
