Houzz Logo Print
annie1992_gw

Dad

18 years ago

I have so many friends here with prayers and advice, so I needed to let you know.

Dad had a heart attacked about 8 a.m. this morning. Medics gave him CPR, got a slight pulse. They lost him again in the ambulance, got a pulse but no blood pressure at the hospital. At about 11 a.m. the doctor came in, said it had been 3 hours, he hadn't been able to breathe on his own during the entire time, his blood pressure came and went and only the Heparin was keeping his heart beating. The brain damage was almost certain and unreversible, what would we choose as the next step.

Stepmom just looked at me and said "you decide". Dad had made it abundantly clear to me and everyone else in the family that he didn't want machines keeping him alive, he didn't want to live as a vegetable, he didn't want to spend his last days in a nursing home. They let me go into the room to see him and I told them to turn everything off. Stepmom and I sat with him for about 10 minutes and he was gone, he never regained consciousness.

I could not have asked for a greater favor from God than to allow him this type of end. He went fast and his last breaths were taken on the farm. There was no lingering illness, no pain, therapy, rehab. Of course, his instructions to me have always been to make sure Shirley is taken care of, and so I'll do that.

I probably won't be around much for a while, I have wills and estates, insurances and funeral arrangements.

Say an extra prayer for strength for me, please.

Annie

Comments (99)