Alan Hood

Some days are inevitible, no matter how much you prepere yourself and dread the day, you know it will come no matter what.  I got that call that you never want to get from my mother on sunday.  She told me that my grandmother was going to be put in hospice to prepare her to die.  I immediatly made plans with my family to make the trip to Albuquerque to visit my grandmother for what may be the last time.  A couple of hours later after speaking with my grandmothers doctors my father told me that I should make the trip immediately, never a good sign.  So we quickly packed and made the trip.

We got to Albuquerque and went directly to the hospital, arriving at midnight.  My grandmother was sedated and never gained conciousness the entire time we were there, but i believe she knew I was by her side because she would squeeze my hand.  16 minutes after 8:00 Monday October 29th I watched my grandmother take her last breath and pass to a better place.  My grandmother was a very reliogious God fearing woman who unquestionably knew that she would be going to heaven and there is no doubt in my mind that she is there now, in a better place without all of the pain she was suffering through for the last few years.

The part that hurts me the most is knowing that the glue of our family is no longer holding us together and I am sure that whatever was left of the foundation will eventually erode without her.  Some people are just good to their core and my grandmother was one of only two that I haver ever met in my life.  So as I Sit in Starbucks in Albuquerque New Mexico I find it sad that this world and my family will have to be without such an incredible woman.  Grandma, I love and will miss you forever.