It’s A Long Good-bye

Jill C Klunk September 10, 2018 Category: Life Lessons

“She’s leaving me, little by little, I wish she wouldn’t go.
I will be there as long as she needs me. How do I let her know?
I’d like to hold on to the memories, I’d also like to share.
But she’s further away, getting further away. And yet, she’s always there.

It’s a long good-bye, and yet I believe that she can sense us.
So much time between now and then, when it’s time against us.
There are times she almost seems like herself.
Sometimes it’s just a phase. A part of the person I once knew,
and sometimes just a trace.

It’s a long good-bye and still I don’t know just what to say.
There’s so much time between now and then,
because she goes away, a long good-bye.
Tell me how do all the others do it? There’s so much time between now and then.
How do we get through it? It’s a long good-bye.” ~ Patrick Higgins

As a former Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES) in Conway SC I dealt with families and friends every day who have or are in the process of losing a loved one to, in my book, one of the scariest diseases around ~ Alzheimer’s.

I lost my Father and now one of my best friends, at age 62 was diagnosed with this disease.

As I sit here with tears in my eyes, I think of the fond memories we spent over the last twenty-four years, laughing, playing, consoling each other and the plans we had made for our retirement days. I call and talk to her regularly, even though I realize she may forget the instant she hangs up the phone. I sense that she knows how much I love her and how much I miss her smile and her sense of humor.

A night doesn’t go by when I pray that she will get better, but in reality all I can do is pray that the good Lord watch over her keep her safe and well while she is still with us.

I miss you both. And it is a very long good-bye.

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