Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Grace and Closure

I stopped to talk to Grace at the memory care my dad was at all summer, after my TV job tonight. I thanked her for caring for dad. She said they "clicked," and she thought of him like her dad. The other woman who works evenings said he was a good guy and funny. I'm glad I did that. There was closure in it. Definitely for me, but maybe for all of us. Maybe for dad too. Tomorrow is one month since he died.

1 comment:

CuTRis said...

Because the health and wellness director at that facility was fighting with our hospice team, we moved dad out of there so quickly that I never got to say thank you or goodbye to Grace. I left a message through another employee, but that didn't seem to be good enough. It always bothered me. Because we had had so much difficulty with that head nurse, I really didn't want to go back there. However, I had visited dad after my TV job a few times, and Grace was always there in the evening, so I chose to stop by then. After how some of our politicians have maligned immigrants, I wanted this woman to know how much we all appreciated her and I wanted say goodbye.