I'm Back Again!!!

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There is always something that comes up and I can't write and I miss that!! My last post was about "The Mighty Muddy Flood" that happened in 2023!! Thought last year I would be able to be on her more to share the experiences that I went through through and after the flood. Well, one thing that came out of the flood was the unfortunate loss of the mother-in-law. I've written about her on several occassions and I will admit there were things that she did, I didn't like abot her, but I can't say nor will ever say is that I hated her. There were in times that I felt sorry for her, but never did I hate her personally. Ever since we moved here, we could tell her health was going downhill, but we never knew how bad. She lasted a little over a year after the flood when she passed on. The water from the flood got into her lungs and she had fluid on her lungs before and the flood waters just exasperated the fluid that was already on her lungs. July 13,2024 all but one of her children was by her side when her last rights were given. July 14th, she was taken off the ventilator and was there when she drew her last breath. I was there mainly as a daughter-in-law to be of support to her children and to talk to the other daughter-in-law that was there that every one else pretty much was ignoring her. Then I was going to take my granddaughter to get something to drink and I heard what I thought was my mother-in-law saying "she's so pretty", I knew I must have been hearing things, so I was continuing to walk out with my granddaughter when I then heard clearly one of my sister-in-laws say "JoDee, come sit by Mother." So, I sat by her bedside and held her hand and it was her that said that I looked pretty (she had told my husband how pretty I looked since I stopped dying my hair and it's silver/white!!!) I sat with her holding her hand, neither of us speaking and then I remembered when I was working at a nursing home, to talk to people. So, I was telling her of all the people in our community that were praying for her. She said "how nice that was." Then I told her that I was expecting her to take the oxygen mask off, sit up and yell "Surprise!!" We both laughed and I told her we loved her and she said she loved us too." Not much longer after that she took her last breath. It was an experience I'd never been through before , to be with some one as they're dieing, but I was glad I was there it made me feel like more than a daughter-in-law!!