My sincerest sympathies, Mag.  We are all here for you.  If you ever 
want to IM me, please email me off-list and I will log on into my 
instant messenger client.

Hugs, Kat

Tamar Raine wrote:
> Today my sister and 
> Gary, kat, ken, trisha, linda...... thank you...
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> Today my sister and I and two of our cousins, after listening to what the doctor was saying, decided it would be an act out of love to put him out of his misery.  The doctor began removing the blood pressure med, the antibiotics, the liquid nutrition... less than 15 minutes later she came to get us saying she thought he was going to go very quickly. They kept him on oxygen, and gave him a lot of morphine which apparently not only helps pain, but calms the heart. We all went back to say our goodbyes, though it was clear zev was not really there he was just lingering on.  Whenever his heartrate went up, the nurses would come give him more morphine. we took turns standing with him, and then at 4 PM I was having blood sugar issues so I went downstairs and got dinner. I was just finishing and angella and I were toasting "to Daddy" when my cousin came running in, saying they think he's going to go now... Slowly we watched as his heartrate kept dropping, and
>  then it hit 20, and my cousin who is a doctor turned the alarm off and aviva and I had our hands on daddy and each other... then it hit zero... and daddy stopped gasping and looked peaceful... the whole process was about two hours.  I wept for short periods of time, as things would just hit me.  I kept kissing his head, and after it was over and the o2 mask was off, I hugged him as best I could...
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> I've lost my dad who was also my best friend...........  he was an absolutrely wonderful man, he was the best dad i could ever have. and no, gary, he never told me I could not succeed, he may have felt like over protecting me, but he never held me back.  i think there is something about the father-daughter relationship that makes the dad want to protect his daughters even if they don't have disability.
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