This was posted on my brothers myspace and I wanted to share with all.
On Friday August 31,2007 I was with my mother who was under the care of Hospice at JFK Hospital in Lake Worth. I had gotten there early that day and had dinner in the room with my brother and sister. Throughout the day and evening I would hold and talk to my mother as she layed in bed helplessly unable to say a word or make any voluntary movement. All that could be seen is teardrops continuously running down the side of her face. Her eyes wide open unable to focus at will and an expression of pain and sorrow on her face. At times i felt she was trying to communicate through her tears. Throughout the night her facial expressions would change displaying various emotions. At 2:am I leaned over one last time before retiring to my bed and started to tell her that I loved her and that everything will be allright and that she should let go and go with God. Then her eyes would look at me and start to tear profusely. While wiping her tears at one point my emotions took over and started to cry uncontrollably. Then I looked at her and saw her face change. She no longer looked like the mom I knew. I started to see her as an an angel. I kept looking at her and then I knew that she would be leaving us soon. The angel had come to prepare her for the journey. I believe she managed to convince the angel to wait till morning so she can spend one lastnight with all her kids in the room. The doctor came into the room at 8:30am to look her over and started to tell my sister that she has one to two days left at best. At 9:am I didn't hear the loud breathing that she was making throughout the night and got up to check up on her. I found her alive, breathing quietly along with a teardrop on the corner of her right eye. I looked at her and wiped the tear drop but then went back into bed. My sister got up approximate 2 minutes after and went to brush her teeth. Before brushing her teeth my sister told my brother who was sleeping on the recliner to go to bed since she was getting up. After a minute of thinking about it he decided to get up and laid down in bed next to me. As he started to lay down he looked over at mom and noticed that she had stopped breathing. She had fullfilled her last wish of spending one last night with all her children and took flight with her new wings.
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