Life is for the Living
Sep. 17th, 2007 05:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicWhen I talked to my Dad yesterday morning, he told me that Grandma would've understood that I couldn't make it to her funeral. He told me to go ahead with my plans to travel, and to have fun...Grandma would've wanted that for me.
I know she would have. She was a fun lady.
I'll still be thinking of her, though. We spent yesterday in Maastricht, and unfortunately, we couldn't visit any of the churches due to services (we spent all afternoon doing a cave tour and then a boat tour, so we didn't make it back in the afternoon to visit the churches). Anyway, at the Basilica of Our Lady, I just stopped into the chapel at the entrance and for a moment, lit a candle and stood there, sending my thoughts to her.
Today we're making our way to Munich and taking the train to Garmisch. We'll arrive too late there to really do much of anything today. Tomorrow we spend in Garmisch. Wednesday we go to Berchtesgaden to see the Eagle's Nest (weather permitting, otherwise, we get a tour of the salt mines). Thursday we go to Neuschwanstein. Friday - Innsbruck. Saturday - Brixen and Vipiteno, Italy. Sunday we're taking the train to Munich to spend part of the day at Oktoberfest and the other part of the day sightseeing. Next Monday, we go from Garmisch to Munich and fly out to Venice for a few days.
It's an exhausting itinerary, but it will keep me distracted.
Anyway, the funeral will probably be Wednesday. I think my older brother is going to try to make it out from California, but he'll probably be the only one. I can't see Scott flying in from Guam. I'll be there in spirit...Dad is putting a picture of us in her casket (the one I posted here a couple days ago) along with a message that I emailed him.
He sounded fine on the phone yesterday, which gave me a sense of relief. He said that the aneurysm destroyed 75% of her brain. So I don't think she felt any pain. He said he had spent Wednesday with her, and she never told him that she had learned to walk again, until the end of the day, when she said she had a surprise. She got up and started walking (she broke her hip in June and had several complications with the metal parts they put in her hip)...and he said it was such an amazing moment for both of them. I'm glad he has that.
Thanks for all your kind words over the weekend. Waiting for it to be over was the hardest part. She made it 36 hours without life support, which is a testament to how strong she was. She was warm and funny and never had a bad thing to say about anybody. She also had a difficult life, but she approached it with a positive attitude. I very rarely ever saw her angry, sad, upset, or depressed about anything. She had a huge number of friends and a very large family. She had very little in the way of material possessions or money, but she was still very rich.
I know she would have. She was a fun lady.
I'll still be thinking of her, though. We spent yesterday in Maastricht, and unfortunately, we couldn't visit any of the churches due to services (we spent all afternoon doing a cave tour and then a boat tour, so we didn't make it back in the afternoon to visit the churches). Anyway, at the Basilica of Our Lady, I just stopped into the chapel at the entrance and for a moment, lit a candle and stood there, sending my thoughts to her.
Today we're making our way to Munich and taking the train to Garmisch. We'll arrive too late there to really do much of anything today. Tomorrow we spend in Garmisch. Wednesday we go to Berchtesgaden to see the Eagle's Nest (weather permitting, otherwise, we get a tour of the salt mines). Thursday we go to Neuschwanstein. Friday - Innsbruck. Saturday - Brixen and Vipiteno, Italy. Sunday we're taking the train to Munich to spend part of the day at Oktoberfest and the other part of the day sightseeing. Next Monday, we go from Garmisch to Munich and fly out to Venice for a few days.
It's an exhausting itinerary, but it will keep me distracted.
Anyway, the funeral will probably be Wednesday. I think my older brother is going to try to make it out from California, but he'll probably be the only one. I can't see Scott flying in from Guam. I'll be there in spirit...Dad is putting a picture of us in her casket (the one I posted here a couple days ago) along with a message that I emailed him.
He sounded fine on the phone yesterday, which gave me a sense of relief. He said that the aneurysm destroyed 75% of her brain. So I don't think she felt any pain. He said he had spent Wednesday with her, and she never told him that she had learned to walk again, until the end of the day, when she said she had a surprise. She got up and started walking (she broke her hip in June and had several complications with the metal parts they put in her hip)...and he said it was such an amazing moment for both of them. I'm glad he has that.
Thanks for all your kind words over the weekend. Waiting for it to be over was the hardest part. She made it 36 hours without life support, which is a testament to how strong she was. She was warm and funny and never had a bad thing to say about anybody. She also had a difficult life, but she approached it with a positive attitude. I very rarely ever saw her angry, sad, upset, or depressed about anything. She had a huge number of friends and a very large family. She had very little in the way of material possessions or money, but she was still very rich.
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