Well, my Grandma made it through surgery, is unhappy, but she made it through. And then the day after her fall, Matt's Grandpa fell down the stairs and had a brain bleed and stroke. We gave him a week for things to change, but they never did, so hospice came in to help as we let him die this weekend. Our family spent Saturday to Tuesday morning at 12:05 am at the hospital, just waiting for him to let go and pass. He fought it though. He lived with oxygen saturations at 56% (90% or greater is normal) for 36 hours. I didn't know the body could live that long with sats like that. Ogden Regionals nurses were wonderful and so caring to let us be there all that time and treated him so wonderfully.
The family is all okay with his death because he had emphysema and was going to die a much more miserable death in the long run if this hadn't taken him. His wife is struggling though. She is only 52 years old and has lost her husband of 27 years now. She will miss him and struggle not to be with him anymore.
It is a weird phase of life when the people you love start dying. Matt and I both knew that our grandparents wouldn't make it forever, but we will miss them. I guess that is how life works though, people are born and people die. We will miss Grandpa, but Gabriel still carries his name's sake. Gabriel Thomas Cassity. We love you Grandpa Cassity!
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I'm sorry Ash. That is so hard to lose a grandparent. JD and I had our first experience with it this past year when we lost his grandpa. You know it will happen someday but you just don't know life without them and it is hard adjustment.
Let us know if you need anything. Send our love to Matt as well. Love you all.
So sorry to hear about Matt's grandpa. Our thoughts and prayers will be with your family.
So sorry to hear this! It's so wonderful that you got time to say your good bye's. You and your family will be in our prayers as you make it threw these hard times.
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