I would imagine a wide awake experience would be very disconcerting, my sympathies to you on the loss of your Dad, mine went home to the Lord in January ‘07.
Thank you. My mother retired as an R.N. after 42 years, and as she said, it's a blessing that his suffering is over - he had no quality of life to speak of. It's tough to see a robust parent deteriorate in that way - he had atrophied physically, was developing early-onset Alzheimer's, had developed neuropathy in both legs, and we lost him due to post-surgical complications when they tried to restore circulation in one leg, or gangrene would have taken him (his heart was too weak for an amputation). His heart and spirit were in it - he was a warrior to the end - but his body betrayed him. My mother was there when he coded, and she was the one who made the call when the crash cart wasn't enough - the one person I would have wanted to make the call. He was 65 years young. But, were it not for her, and his cardiologist living next door for ten years, he'd have died at my age. That's one thing that I give thanks for - he had his first heart attack at 34, and aside from treated hypertension, diet-controlled diabetes, and a bad general dispostion, I've yet to go under the knife at 45.
