Post by troyzone on Oct 20, 2008 22:18:44 GMT -5
Hi Everyone,
I hate to post more bad news in this board just two threads after the one about my father (Harold) passing away, but my family is back in the same situation again before even fully coming to grips with my father's passing...
It has barely been two and a half months since my father passed away, and now tragedy has struck again for us. My grandmother on my mother's side has also just passed away last Thursday, Oct. 16/08, just as suddenly and unexpectedly as my father did. She was 76.
My mother and grandmother were always out and about together and were virtually inseparable, so I'm sure my mother is going to have a really hard time with this on top of my father's recent death. I was very close to her as well, as she lived about a 30-second walk away just around the corner from us.
As before, my poor mother was the unfortunate one to find her lying on the floor in her house. Just the night before, they were out together and she was fine then. She wasn't found until late Thursday night, but the coroner said that she apparently had an acute and fatal heart attack early that morning. She was apparently just putting on her shoes for the day and took it.
A couple of years previous, my grandmother had finished a year and a half long battle with both breast and cervical cancer and we almost lost her a few times during that struggle, but in the end she beat the cancer and has been doing quite well for the most part over the past two years since then. After all of the chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery that she endured for two types of cancer and beating it, she now suddenly has a fatal heart attack out of the blue when she wasn't even really known to have a heart condition, so it came as quite a shock to us.
We've made it through the last few difficult days of arrangements, visitations, and the funeral itself that was earlier today, and now comes the equally difficult task of trying to move forward with the rest of our lives without her. I'm sure it will be really hard for my mother after this. She and her mother were best friends and rarely did they go anywhere when they weren't together. Mom will be totally lost without her.
Also, my grandfather passed away four years ago and my mother is the executor of their estate, so she's going to have a LOT of hard work ahead of her dealing with their house and all of their possessions. She's never had to do anything like that before, and the strong emotional attachment will make it that much harder. The house is packed...every closet and every drawer is full, and the basement is full as well.
I don't know how we'll make out with all of that...I'm certainly not looking forward to it. Dealing with the estate will be a huge, arduous process that will take many weeks, or more likely, months, of working away at it when time permits in between working our full-time jobs and other obligations.
As before, I just wanted to ask everyone to keep my mother, sister, uncle, and the rest of the family in your thoughts and prayers so that they can make it through this difficult time. Thanks, take care.
Troy
I hate to post more bad news in this board just two threads after the one about my father (Harold) passing away, but my family is back in the same situation again before even fully coming to grips with my father's passing...
It has barely been two and a half months since my father passed away, and now tragedy has struck again for us. My grandmother on my mother's side has also just passed away last Thursday, Oct. 16/08, just as suddenly and unexpectedly as my father did. She was 76.
My mother and grandmother were always out and about together and were virtually inseparable, so I'm sure my mother is going to have a really hard time with this on top of my father's recent death. I was very close to her as well, as she lived about a 30-second walk away just around the corner from us.
As before, my poor mother was the unfortunate one to find her lying on the floor in her house. Just the night before, they were out together and she was fine then. She wasn't found until late Thursday night, but the coroner said that she apparently had an acute and fatal heart attack early that morning. She was apparently just putting on her shoes for the day and took it.
A couple of years previous, my grandmother had finished a year and a half long battle with both breast and cervical cancer and we almost lost her a few times during that struggle, but in the end she beat the cancer and has been doing quite well for the most part over the past two years since then. After all of the chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery that she endured for two types of cancer and beating it, she now suddenly has a fatal heart attack out of the blue when she wasn't even really known to have a heart condition, so it came as quite a shock to us.
We've made it through the last few difficult days of arrangements, visitations, and the funeral itself that was earlier today, and now comes the equally difficult task of trying to move forward with the rest of our lives without her. I'm sure it will be really hard for my mother after this. She and her mother were best friends and rarely did they go anywhere when they weren't together. Mom will be totally lost without her.
Also, my grandfather passed away four years ago and my mother is the executor of their estate, so she's going to have a LOT of hard work ahead of her dealing with their house and all of their possessions. She's never had to do anything like that before, and the strong emotional attachment will make it that much harder. The house is packed...every closet and every drawer is full, and the basement is full as well.
I don't know how we'll make out with all of that...I'm certainly not looking forward to it. Dealing with the estate will be a huge, arduous process that will take many weeks, or more likely, months, of working away at it when time permits in between working our full-time jobs and other obligations.
As before, I just wanted to ask everyone to keep my mother, sister, uncle, and the rest of the family in your thoughts and prayers so that they can make it through this difficult time. Thanks, take care.
Troy
