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Right Before the End

We’ve started 24-hour hospice care.   Later on Saturday, Larry started moaning and we realized that we needed to call the hospice number.  I told them what was going on and they agreed, sending Edison, an LVN, over at 6pm and through to 8am the first night, to be able to take care of Larry.  Larry really stopped being responsive at this time, […]

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End Stages

These two days were a blur, to be honest.  Larry finally is in what are the end stages – minimal consciousness, although when there was, especially on Thursday, he sometimes understood what was going on but mostly he was upset as we wouldn’t let him hold his glass of water by himself or feed himself, and […]

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A New Year Begins

Happy New Year, right?   It’s obvious this is the end stretch.  Larry is barely coherent, and when he is awake (which is when we get him up to go to the bathroom or for meals), he gets frustrated at the fact that he can’t be independent.  So it’s good I guess that he does feel those emotions, and […]

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A Decade Ends

The end of this fucking year and decade.  The decade itself was probably my personal best decade ever as I spent it living with and loving Larry, the one I always dreamed of having in my life.   But it also is the decade in which I was on the path of losing him.  2020 may be when he […]

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Losing Larry

This was a quiet, and unfortunately, kind of sad day.  Not sad because it was quiet, but it truly was a day where Larry really just couldn’t get out of bed and his awareness is nearly wiped out.  We’re basically getting him close to an incapacitated, Alzheimer’s patient now.  There’s moments where he can communicate and interact, but […]