A prayer for my Nanna

Bruce,
I can relate to this too.

My friend's family choose not to put their mother on life support after she had a severe stroke.

For what its worth, they are sure they did the right thing.
 
Bruce - I understand. I've been in similar circumstances. Letting go is hard, but hanging on can be harder still.

My prayers are with you and all.

Thank you for giving us all a chance to commiserate.

Warmest regards,

Cliff
 
Bruce, there's a time to fight like hell for life, and there's a time to let it go...
May you and your loved ones meet again one day, in a place where there is neither grief nor pain, but life eternal.
 
Bruce,

I have shed a tear and said a prayer. I can relate, and wish your family only the best.

Aaron.

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"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
 
Bruce, my prayers are with you & your family and I think that you made a very wise decision to "let go".

My own father died under strange circumstances -- I suspect a hospital foul-up. They were talking about sending him home in a couple of days when he suddenly took a turn for the worse, ended up in a comma and was dead within 96 hours. During those 96 hours I watched one body function fail after another. For every one that was restored, two others would fail.

After the third day, I stopped praying for his recovery and left it in God's hands --aksing, instead, for a quick end ... either to have him healthy again or to take him from this earth but to just end his suffering one way or the other. After I "let go", he was dead in less than a day later.

Once again, my thoughts & prayers are with you & your family during this difficult & painful time.
 
I know how you feel. My wife's 'Granny' lived (if you want to call it that) for months at my wife mothers home. She was 98 when she pasted a few months ago. It was difficult for my wife and her family to 'let her go'. I'm not sorry to say I prayed for what you are asking. Though I would never tell my wife. She did know that she should 'let her go'. They all did.
I choose to remember 'Granny' when just months before she was sitting in the living room laughing about something she had just said. Not the very thin person hooked up to oxygen and always asleep.

Here is a poem that my wife's cousin read at the funeral. I don't know the author.
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May I Go?

May I go now?
Do you think the time is right?
May I say good-bye to pain filled days, and endless lonely nights?

I've lived my life and done my best, an example I've tried to be,
so can I take that step beyond
and set my spirit free?

I didn't want to go at first,
I fought with all my might,
but something seems to draw me now,
to a warm and loving light.

I want to go, I really do,
it's difficult to stay,
but I will try as best I can
to live just one more day.

To give you time to care for me,
to share your love and fears,
I know you are sad and afraid,
because I see your tears.

I will not be far, I promise that,
And hope you'll always know,
That my Spirit will be close to you,
where ever you may go.

Thank you so for Loving Me,
you know I Love You too,
that's why it's hard to say Goodbye,
and end this life with you.

So hold me now just one more time,
and let me hear you say
because you care so much for me
you'll let me go today.
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My prayer are with you and yours.

You've caused a bearded tattoo'ed right-wing extremist biker to cry.

Sgt.K

edited for spelling, it's hard to type through tears. :D

[This message has been edited by Sgt.K (edited August 28, 2000).]
 
Bruce,
I've been a little out of touch this last weekend, so I just found this thread. Please know that my thoughts are with you and your family and your Nanna.
 
First time seeing this and I'm sorry for your pain. Prayer said and I know how you feel. When I was young my Grandmother was sick and in the hospital. One night I prayed that she would just die if it would end her pain. I was 11 years old. The next morning my Dad came into my room and told me that she had passed away that evening. I felt bad for that prayer being answered but I have always held onto the hope that it was for the best. I know you'll be there as much as possible in the final hours so just enjoy her memory.
 
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