Hi Lisa!,

I hope ur day went better than you thought it would!

~Kim~

Hey LIsa, Yes I held my mom's hand while she passed in the hospital. My uncle freaked out and left the room during that time. My sister didn't feel there was any need to be by mom during that time. We are all so different. I'm glad I was there and held her hand. 

Bless you for the work you do and for being a loving mom to a special child...we adopted three special needs babies...two sons with severe CP and one daughter who has a personality disorder...my daughter, now 25,  has disappeared into a sad lifestyle, and has been gone since before her brother died suddenly last May, so doesn't even know of his death, and my other son Bo, was present in the room when his brother died..Bo, now 29, also needs total care, so he couldn't have done anything to help his brother even if he COULD have ...we were on vacation at the beach and they shared a bedroom there...Brandon had woken up but was sleepyheaded, so we turned on his iPad to the music he loved, and left the room for a few minutes to get his food ready [he was tube fed] and when we came back to get him up he had died...we were told it was a 'cardiac event' that had happened so quickly nothing could have been done to save him, but I always wonder if only I had been there at that moment and seen something was wrong....

several years ago my mom died from complications of emphysema, and I had my hand on her ankle [I had been rubbing her leg and foot] when suddenly all the monitors simultaneously crashed, and I actually FELT a rush of energy fly out of my mom through my hand....I will never forget that feeling....It helped me to cope with losing mom, knowing she had left that body full of pain, and flown off...

But now I'm having trouble dealing with the loss of my son Brandon.  Even with all I have seen and experienced that assures me that our loved ones live on, I can't seem to shake this heavy depression since I lost my Brandon...he was 22.