Category: Death and Dying

Today I helped my mom-in-law get showered and ready for tomorrow. Her dear Chuck’s birthday is tomorrow, and we’ll take Mom to the cemetery to put fresh flowers at his graveside. He had turned 85 just 2 months before he died, and that was almost 7 years ago. Today, after I helped Mom get into a fresh nightie and put her hair up in curlers, she asked me to help her “draw some eyebrows on.” There was a day when I would have tried to talk her out of it – after all, we weren’t going until tomorrow – but it seemed important to her, so I put my glasses on and made her look pretty. When I finished, she grabbed my hand, kissed it and held it to her cheek. Some things are worth doing, even when it seems unnecessary.