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jenni_blog) wrote2024-12-18 05:28 pm
jenni_blog) wrote2024-12-18 05:28 pm
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SOME SAD NEWS
My husband passed away peacefully on December 14th at his nursing home, Cottonwoods, in Kelowna, BC.
He had been suffering from a rapidly advancing condition called Lewy Body Dementia. It is similar to Parkinson's but is a type of fast-acting dementia. He had been in hospital since June 12 this year, and was then transferred to Cottonwoods once a bed became available in September.
Even thougn I've virtually been grieving for six months, it was still a shock to get the call on Saturday.
I'm doing okay. I've been busy notifying people and arranging things with the funeral home. What I chose to do because of the time of year, is have Ed cremated and have them put his ashes in an urn. When I can fly there to pick them up, I'll consider some keepsakes, and I want to buy a park bench to put in one of his favourite places, with a plaque as a memorial to him. Then I'll arrange for a memorial service in the nicer weather, probably in May.
Some recent photos:
This was taken in July 2023 at one of his favourite beach spots.
This was in our local pub, about a year ago:
And this is both of us at his brother's birthday party in 2019 in Huntsville, Ontario:
Okay, one more. We are with our son Jamie and his then girlfriend, now wife, and their chihuahua mix, on a hiking trail in Whitby, Ontario, a few years ago, probably 2020.
It's hard to process that he's actually gone.
He had been suffering from a rapidly advancing condition called Lewy Body Dementia. It is similar to Parkinson's but is a type of fast-acting dementia. He had been in hospital since June 12 this year, and was then transferred to Cottonwoods once a bed became available in September.
Even thougn I've virtually been grieving for six months, it was still a shock to get the call on Saturday.
I'm doing okay. I've been busy notifying people and arranging things with the funeral home. What I chose to do because of the time of year, is have Ed cremated and have them put his ashes in an urn. When I can fly there to pick them up, I'll consider some keepsakes, and I want to buy a park bench to put in one of his favourite places, with a plaque as a memorial to him. Then I'll arrange for a memorial service in the nicer weather, probably in May.
Some recent photos:
This was taken in July 2023 at one of his favourite beach spots.
This was in our local pub, about a year ago:
And this is both of us at his brother's birthday party in 2019 in Huntsville, Ontario:
Okay, one more. We are with our son Jamie and his then girlfriend, now wife, and their chihuahua mix, on a hiking trail in Whitby, Ontario, a few years ago, probably 2020.
It's hard to process that he's actually gone.