Well, it's all over but the waiting

[LurkMeister]

Yesterday, January 24, Patti laid aside her burden and passed on. She passed quietly shortly after noon.

She is being cremated, and there will be a memorial service at a later date. I had been working on a memorial post, which will be on-line later today; I wasn’t expecting to need it so soon, and it’s not quite finished.

[liirogue]

I am so sorry LurkMeister. At least she is at peace now

[whiterabbit]

I’m so sorry, Lurkmeister.

[norinew]

My deepest, most sincere sympathies, LurkMeister.

[brachyrhynchos]

My condolences, LurkMeister.

[Kyla]

LurkMeister, this thread has me in tears. Anyone who has read your threads in the last few years knows who much you loved your wife. I feel fortunate enough to have met the two of you at ChiDope last year. Please accept my sincerest condolences.

[GIGObuster]

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, “There, she is gone.”

“Gone where?”

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There, she is gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming, and there are other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!” And that is dying.

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LurkMeister, my thoughts are with you. May peace be also.

[Cosmopolitan]

My thoughts are with you - I’m so sorry that you & she have to go through this.

[Kal]

Travel well, Patti.

Our love and sympathies to you, Lurky.

[Taters]

My sincerest condolences. Yours posts concerning this journey have left me in tears.

Hopefully you will find peace and strength in the fact she is no longer suffering. I know this probably doesn’t assuage your grief now, but hopefully soon it will.

Having had to make a similar decision for a loved one a few years ago, I do have an inkling of what you must be feeling.

My heart goes out to you. Please know you are in my thoughts.

[Horseflesh]

For once words fail me. Just know that you are in my thoughts LurkMeister. I can’t begin to imagine where you are right now. Tears don’t come easy to these eyes, yet I feel the sting.

And to Mrs. Meister: Rest in peace, dear. Know that you have a loving husband that kept his promise to stick by you to the bitter end. You will never be forgotten.

[earthpuppy]

May her memory be eternal.

Bless you, LurkMeister.

[Francesca]

I read this thread last Friday and my thoughts have been with you during this weekend. I wish you the strength to cope during this most difficult time.

[LurkMeister]

Thank you all for your thoughts. I posted this in memory of Patti.

[TeaElle]

LurkMeister, you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers. My deepest sympathies are with you.