Larry died on Tuesday morning, Jan 7, 2020, at 1:20am. Monday, we were basically waiting on him to finally surrender. Sveta came over, and we all started listening to the many favorite tunes of Larry’s while waiting, which helped make the mood a bit more celebratory than the dread it had been when it was silent or the […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]