I wrote this journal earlier today... unfortunately before i posted it my uncle passed away tonight at 9 pm. I know it is inhumane to keep them alive to suffer but he fought his battle of cancer for 10 years and had won until just recently and it just seems so unfair. I lost two other relatives last week. Now my father is the oldest living relative on his side of the family and has all of his nephews and great nephews looking at him as a father figure. My dad can barely catch his breathe tonight since he has COPD and congestive heart failure and is taking his Uncle's death very hard! Please pray my dad's health doesn't deteriorate from the stress of his Uncle passing away. My Uncle was like a Gerald Ford and so was my Uncle's twin brother. They were very smart opening their own steel company, yet they were down to earth and very personable. Always so quiet and smiling. They were true gentlemen...and now the twins are home in Heaven with my sweet Great Grandmother and my dad's father who would be a step-brother to the twins. I keep trying to find a way to live thru all of my pain but when i am surround by death so often it is so hard to think about living! My family will be ok. It's hard on me when my other family lives in SC, i have to miss so many of the funerals when they are 800 miles away. They all understand though because of my recent back surgery and car accident it would be too hard to travel that far and know i am with them in heart and spirit!!!!!!!
He was born so we could live...
Posted On 12/20/2007 09:28:47 by Gimpybear
It's an exciting time of the year for the kids of the world....but a stressful time for the grown ups. With the war continuing, job losses, divorces, stresses of finding ways to go in debt once again to please everyone for the Christmas holiday! We forget the meaning of the season.....when we get all wrapped up in all the other hussles and bussles of going broke shopping, wrapping gifts, going to this party and that party, etc. A little bit of it is fun, but when you have so much to do and so many place to go it isn't fun anymore!
With the season having meaning about birth and life of our saviour.....it reminds us just how precious life is. With all of the soldiers dying for us, just as Jesus did. Please keep all the soldiers and their families in your thoughts and prayers this time of the season. Also for all of those suffering with loneliness, depression, illness, divorce, and other deaths of the family.
This morning i got a phone call from my father in SC telling me that Hospice has been called in to my Uncles home this morning. He has been fighting his battle of cancer for so long and the selfish me wants him to keep fighting but in my heart i know that it is time that if he wants to surrendor it is okay! In my eyes he still won! He was always a sweetheart of an uncle. A very simple, yet quiet man. When his twin brother passed away, my uncle Vic took over the steel company. Now that Vic has been sick, my cousins and my brother and many others have been trying to do their best to please him and show him they can make it work for him so he can concentrate on getting himself well again. This is so hard being 800 miles away and feeling so helpless. If it is time and he does slip away today, then he will have lots of family waiting to receive him into heaven. The problem here is that will make my father the oldest living relative now and besides my cousins and my brother and i, my father doesn't have much family left. We all figured my dad would have passed a long time ago with his drinking and smoking habits and consequential heart attack and pace maker defibulator. But instead he is outliving all of his healthy relatives. I am thankful that i still have my father, but it is so very hard to watch him lose one family member after another and silently weep. Please pray for a Christmas miracle that my uncle can hold on for a few more weeks so he can make it to Asheville for his new treatment. I am so sad that i cannot even think about Christmas right now. I know i have to keep a happy face on for my kids, but at the same time, i just lost two family members here on my mothers side of the family so enough is enough! I am very sleepy from my new medication so i am going to go and hibernate and then i will write to all of my friends since i am a few days behind.
Regardless, i still wish to all of my friends and family a Merry Christmas and i hope next year will be a better one for all of us! Love Sherry
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Uncle "Vic" Donnie, You were a Great Son, Father, Husband, Brother, Uncle, Friend, Neighbor, Businessman, but most of all a Great Man! I am so proud of the life you lived Uncle "Vic" Donnie and i know that you fought as hard as you could against that cancer, but it was time to let your earthly body go! I hope that you know how well loved you were and that you will be deeply missed by all who knew you! A child was born Christmas Eve in a manger, so that we may live an eternal life ever after! One day i hope i will be worthy enough to join you in the Heavenly Kingdom with all of the rest of our family! God bless you Uncle Donnie and all that you meant to all of your loved ones. May you rest in peace now and know no more suffering, love your niece, Sherry
