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Grandma had
started passing hints to them that her time was coming. They didn’t really
notice until she actually died and they compared notes. Grandma had a
premonition that her time was close. I find that amazing…but wait…there’s more.
The evening
of her passing Grandma asked her granddaughter to fry her some eggs, she was
too weak to stand at the stove and fry them herself. Grandma was very
self-reliant and never asked for help (she reminds me so much of my mom). The
granddaughter thought it was odd and called the grandson to remark to him that
Grandma had asked for help and she NEVER does that, but she made her the eggs
and didn’t think about it again.
The grandson
called Grandma’s son and asked him to just stop by and check on his mother as
she wasn’t feeling well. The grandson finished up some work at the office and
when he got home Grandma’s son was there so the grandson went to go lay down
for a bit as he had a headache.
He got up a
bit later and went down to grab a bite to eat and came back to lay down and as
he was laying there the dogs started making a racket and barking like crazy. He
shot up and ran out of the room and saw his niece and asked her what was going
on? Was someone at the door? And the niece said no, it was just the dogs
barking at Grandma who had gotten up to go to the bathroom.
He thought that was weird as they had never barked at Grandma before but he went back to go lay down. Not much time had gone by and the dogs went crazy barking again and again he got up to see what was happening and ran into his son who remarked that the dogs were barking at Grandma who was heading back to her room. They both said that was weird, but things settled down and they both went back to what they were doing.
He thought that was weird as they had never barked at Grandma before but he went back to go lay down. Not much time had gone by and the dogs went crazy barking again and again he got up to see what was happening and ran into his son who remarked that the dogs were barking at Grandma who was heading back to her room. They both said that was weird, but things settled down and they both went back to what they were doing.
The niece
happened to walk by the bathroom a bit later and saw that Grandma had left the
light on and that there was a light under Grandma’s bedroom door so she peeked
in thinking Grandma probably fell asleep with the light on as she often did.
Grandma was
sitting in her chair, with her eyes open and was unresponsive. The niece
screamed that something was wrong with Grandma and they all ran upstairs. The grandson
and his son picked Grandma up out of the chair and laid her on the floor so
that the granddaughter could begin CPR. They called 911.
Police
arrived first, and then the EMT’s and they also began life saving measures on
Grandma. Eventually they EMT’s told the family that they were sorry, but there
was nothing else they could do. Grandma was gone.
The grandson
remarked that it was weird that they had not noticed how much weight Grandma
had lost. When he and his son picked her up to lay her on the floor they almost
dropped her as they expected so much more weight than what she really was. How
did they not notice? That troubled him.
He remarked
that he was also troubled about her dying in the house, in that room. I told
him, “You know what I think? I am comforted by two things, one that she died at
home and not in a hospital or on her way in an ambulance. She had a delicious
meal cooked by her precious granddaughter, she saw her son and she knew all the
people she loved best were at home and safe.
Secondly, the fact that the dogs were barking leads me to believe that they weren’t barking at Grandma, they knew her, they never barked at her; they were barking at someone that came to take Grandma and show her the way.”
Secondly, the fact that the dogs were barking leads me to believe that they weren’t barking at Grandma, they knew her, they never barked at her; they were barking at someone that came to take Grandma and show her the way.”
He was quiet
for a moment and then he said “That kind of bothers me to know there was an
entity in the house.” I told him that to me it was a comfort, because it means
someone gets sent to show us the way. The dogs saw this person and that’s why
they were barking because they didn’t know the person, but animals see things
sometimes that we don’t. Grandma was not scared, she may or may not have known
this person was there, but she wasn’t scared.
He again sat there quietly and said, “It was her momma, her momma came to get her, and you know what Alicia? I didn’t tell you this but last night Grandma’s brother died. Grandma and her momma went to go get him.”
He again sat there quietly and said, “It was her momma, her momma came to get her, and you know what Alicia? I didn’t tell you this but last night Grandma’s brother died. Grandma and her momma went to go get him.”
Before he
left he told me that he found great comfort in knowing that Grandma didn’t go
off alone to some new place, someone that loved her was sent to guide her to
the right place and when it’s our time, someone will come to guide us…maybe
Grandma will come for him. He left comforted and I feel comforted too because I
know that when it was my dad’s time someone, probably his beloved sister Olivia
came for him and someday someone will come for me as well. We will not go off
alone.
