My dear beloved friends and extended family,
I just stopped in for a brief while to get a lift. As you canimagine, I'm exhausted. We removed my husband from the lifesupport last night. When I walked onto the floor where theevent was to take place I found to my intense joy that the ENTIRE floorwas filled with friends and family coming to offer support and to saytheir initial goodbyes to my husband. Some of his coworkerseven showed up and offered prayers and words ofencouragement. The nurses couldn't believe that one man couldbe so loved.
I've received phone calls from all over the country, people are makingvisits ... the overflow of love has been heartwarming. On theevening that I removed my husband from life support I was feeling alittle overwhelmed. Thephysician who delivered thenews to me that he was brain dead was extremely lacking in compassion.When I got home our own dear Carolyn had sent me the mostbeautiful floral arrangement. I cried tears of comfort for along while. I will always remember that act ofkindness.
My note tonight is brief. I thank you all from the bottom ofmy heart for the wonderful expressions of sympathy that you haveoffered to me. You don't know how much it helps to ease mygrief.
As Carolyn has told you, my husband was my true soulmate.Most people in life are not blessed enough to meet that one specialperson ... many times they marry and never experience the blissfulheights of true marital joy. I, however, attainedthat. God allowed my husband and I to see our 15th weddinganniversary on July 5th. In addition, when we first marriedwe set a list of goals of things that we wanted to accomplish andexperience together. We met every one of those goals exceptone by the time that he died. The one thing that we didn'texperience was to have a child, something that I will alwaysregret. Having Sherman though goes a long way towards helpingto fill that void -- in truth, he IS our baby.
Thank you all again. You just don't know how much your wordsmean to me. I won't be participating regularly on the boardfor a while. I know that you will understand. Justknow that you remain in my heart.
I love you all.
--BunnyMommy.