Here\u2019s the second post. \u2013 the Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Engage autopilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Phase in Longest Day protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Run program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let the hospice nurse in. She didn\u2019t have a reason to be there other than she cared about our family and wanted to be with us awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Doorbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The nurse lets in the hospice chaplain. Nice guy. He didn\u2019t argue the week before when he offered to counsel me and I growled, \u201cNot now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Eat? No mental record if I did or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Talk nonsensical bullshit with the siblings and the grandchildren. File the anger away for later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Make sure Mom still gets her medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Feel the cold blasts of air as I walk through the ghosts waiting around her bed.\u00a0
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Wonder which one threw the decorative wall cross across the breezeway several weeks before. Figure it was Faye. She would do that just to hear me cuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Wait some more.\u00a0
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Pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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TV. Feels wrong; Mom hates stupid lip-synch shows like this. But it beats the 24-hours of LifeLock infomercials that day she wouldn\u2019t relinquish the remote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Check the clock.\u00a0
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Time: 9:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cGuys?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Oh dear God no\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Feel her soul slip past me. Feel the other ghosts leave the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feel my sweet Papa puff up with pride as he walks her Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Make a few calls that all sound the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe fight\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Run from the pain for a very, very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n **<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five years.\u00a0 Where the hell did five years go?\u00a0 I miss you so much, Momma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s the second post. \u2013 the Author ** Engage autopilot. Phase in Longest Day protocol. Run program. Sit. Wait. Let the hospice nurse in. She didn\u2019t have a reason to be there other than she cared about our family and wanted to be with us…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8194,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Disconnect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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