Hello LaNell!
It was great talking to you on Skype! It's a cool little gadget, huh?
Your story is most beautiful. It made me cry. Oh, I'm all melancholy. here is the doorbell story. The way my mom said goodbye.
July 29th, 10:15 am. My mom who was on hospice anyway, had a massive heart attack and left in a matter of not even a minute, although as I recall it, it seemed like hours. I realized she was leaving and jumped into bed just held her, telling her, I love you ... I love you..... and she was gone.
My sister and brother-in-law came to be with me and went with me to the funeral home to make all the preparations. After coming back home, I just made the simplest spaghetti possible, dumped it on plates and everyone ate. My brother-in-law really loved my mother and always paid special attention to her.
In the meantime, during the last year of her life while she was so very weak, I had bought one of those wireless doorbells you get at Walmart and Home Depot. Whenever she needed something, she would ring the doorbell and I would go see what she needed.
Well that morning, everything happened so fast everything was left as it was when she died. The receiver for the doorbell was on the table. When we ate, I didn't even clear the table. Just shoved everything over, really didn't care.
Well, Jim, my brother-in-law, who tells really bad jokes all the time, starts to tell a stupid joke, which he had actually told my mom to do about a week before she died. And he begins with the stupid joke saying how he had told mom that she needed to get in touch with him after she died to let him know if there was baseball in heaven and that she said she would, blah, blah. And I'm thinking, "I don't believe he's talking crap like this." All of a sudden. That doorbell rings. There is no possible explanation as to how that could have been done. I looked at everyone with a nervous laugh and continued to eat. As if she had not gotten my attention, that doorbell rings again. Okay, you got my attention. And we all looked at each other. I said bye mom, I love you! And the doorbell never rang again.
I believe because she didn't get a chance to say goodbye to me, that was the way she said goodbye with the doorbell and right after Jim's dumb joke. She was probably hanging around for the right moment. She had a great sense of humor. And, obviously, still does.
Love you!
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