re: Have you seen a loved one in a state that crushed you…

My mother in ICU unconscious with cancer induced sepsis. She was shivering slightly covered by just a bed sheet. I was not polite asking the nurses for warm blankets. She died a few minutes after I left to get some sleep while my brother and Dad stayed with her.

Later, my Dad in a hospital bed shortly after he died from heart failure. I had to fly into Nola from Houston on the early bird and didn’t make it while he was alive. His forehead was still warm to my touch. He was a bad arse Korean War F-86 pilot and engineer who could fix anything, cars to carpentry. A master salt water fisherman, his only hobby.

Many decades ago and I still think about them most every day.