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Posted by Lynnette (97.119.119.251) on 02:23:28 05/23/14
This evening I got a call from my sister that she had taken our
Aunt Pearl to the hospital.. and she was dying. Now, Aunt Pearl
is/was 88, but that didn't mean she was old!
She went to the senior center today... and danced, and did the
Hokey Pokey. On her way to her car, she tripped and fell on the
sidewalk, bumping her head. She went home and put an ice pack on
her head, but she really had a headache. She called her son, and
he finally convinced her to go to the hospital. She called my
sister Ruth Ellen who took her. She walked into the emergency
room.. and told the dr. to patch her up and send her home. The dr.
was going to have her hand and shoulder x-rayed... but did a CT
Scan first. Afterwards, he said the hand and shoulder x-rays would
not be needed and they would try to make her as comfortable as
possible. She told my sister she just couldn't stay awake, just
felt so tired... and she closed her eyes.
That's when my sister called me. I went up to the hospital about 9
o'clock, and she had just been moved into a hospital room. Her
sons and their wives from Lincoln and Omaha got there about an hour
after I did. A little after midnight, my sister went home, and one
of her sons went to stay at a hotel. The nurse came in about 2:15,
and said her heart was still beating strong. About 5 minutes
later, we all looked at each other and said "She just got so pale."
Aunt Pearl was no longer breathing.
Good-bye, Aunt Pearl. You will be missed.
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