Love Looks Like Showing Up
I FaceTimed with my grandpa, who is turning 91 this summer. I haven't talked with him for a while, since he doesn't talk much on phone calls. But now, I'm wishing that I would have had more of them. The phone calls are usually only a couple of minutes long, and they often repeat the same thoughts. I always wanted to hear more from him. My grandpa has been on hospice, and he has pneumonia. My parents told me that this round of pneumonia might be the end. We have gone through this cycle a couple of times before. I grieve over my grandpa's potential passing, and then he gets better. But this time felt different. My brother gave me a forewarning that he was not doing well before we started the call. When I saw him on FaceTime, I could see what my brother meant. He was mostly unresponsive except for a couple of words and arm movements. My brother was in the room with him and repeated much of what we were saying. He had a tube going through his nose, and his mouth hung open. ...