Amazing night

Well, last night after feeling drained, I posted how awful cancer is. I still think that. Today when I got back from Garden City, Terry and I picked up Emily and went to the hospital to visit Aunt Patsy. There had been quite a change. Hospice has come in and all IV's are removed. She is using a pain patch to make it through the pain. I guess that at about 10:00 this morning, after a very lucid few hours, she began to not really talk and had her eyes open, and seemed to look all around and at everyone.

Tonight I went to church for a women's fellowship group. I didn't want to go, but I did anyway. I did enjoy and especially felt the love of such great women. Afterwards, I went back to the hospital to visit with the family of Aunt Patsy. All of her children had arrived except one son who was on his way from Springfield, MO. Just since I had left, she had closed her eyes and wasn't opening them for anything. While I was there, I witnessed an amazing thing. Her son, Danny arrived, walked up to the head of the bed, and began to stroke her head and talk to her. The other children surrounded her bed along with her husband. She opened her eyes and looked right into Danny's face. She probably kept them open for a couple of minutes, but to see that a spirit like hers was surrounded with all of that love just absolutely moved me. I smiled through the tears, knowing that maybe, just maybe now she could go in peace knowing that all of her children were there surrounding her with their love. The only people that haven't gotten here are one of her brothers, and a couple of grandsons. I don't know if they will make it before she passes, but to have witnessed what I did tonight was in itself a true blessing.