Obama just lost a voter

[Zundfolge]

This morning at about 7am EDT at Winchester Hospital in Winchester Mass my Mother in Law passed after a week of unconsciousness.

She lived in Wichita, Kansas but was out in the Boston area visiting my wife's brother. Last Saturday they were driving home from dinner (she was scheduled to fly back to ICT on Sunday) when she passed out. She never regained consciousness (death was complications of emphysema and COPD).

She spent her last week with her son (whom she only sees once a year or so) seeing the sights, they went whale watching, she went to one of the casinos (her favorite past time) and won a little over $250. That final dinner was a big plate of shrimp (her favorite food) finished off with a nice dirty martini (her favorite cocktail).

While the family is sad, we're not all that shocked (she was old, she had lots of health issues). We are all comforted by the fact that she was living life to the fullest right up to the very end, and frankly you can't ask for better than that.

The take-away from all this is that we should all be so lucky as to die on vacation. :D

Gladys was 84 years old. [Beer]

[blacklabel]

Sorry for your loss but it's cool that she got to enjoy some of her favorite things on her last trip.

[Danimal]

RIP. Sounds like a good way to go.

[theGinsue]

Sorry for your families loss.

It sounds like she was enjoying herself at the end and then gracefully slipped away. This is what I hope for myself and family.

Life is tough enough, death shouldn't be long, painful & drawn out.

May she and your/your wife's family have peace.

Oh, and as to the title, she may very well still end up voting for Obama in this election. He seems to get a lot of votes from those who have already left us.

[sniper7]

Sounds like she had a great run at it! RIP

[wctriumph]

Prayers in for Gladys. God speed.

[Great-Kazoo]

Happy to hear she went enjoying life. You didn't need to post her age. Just by your mom's name i can tell within 2-3 years what age group she is in. My late mom's name was Helen, same age bracket as your mom.
This year is 1/2 way over and more people have crossed over than i can count . Some family members others family or friends of the board. Any loss is felt by all.

[Bailey Guns]

Good for you, Gladys. Sounds like her last days were great days. I hope I'm that lucky.

[Daniel_187]

Sorry for you loss, but I thought it WAS the dead voting for Obama?

[Big Wall]

Sorry for your loss.

[10mm-man]

Sorry for your loss! I am glad she was able to spent her last moments in a joy full way. Sounds like a good way to go, hope i/we can be so lucky...

[Lex_Luthor]

The loss will be heavy, but it's very refreshing to hear that she really enjoyed herself in her last days. I hope I can be so lucky. [Beer]

[sellersm]

Condolences to you and the family. What a treasure to know that she was enjoying herself during her last days!

[palepainter]

It is always great to hear someone making the most of their time, and plenty of that as well. Sorry for you family's loss.

[c5fourj]

God bless, my Mom's on the edge as we speak

[Irving]

RIP. Death never stopped a name from voting for a Democrat though.

[Zundfolge]

Thanks for all the condolences, its been a real tough couple of weeks what with the fires, evacuation, wife's lovebird dying (as a result of the evac), the republic dying (as a result of the obamacare ruling) and now this.

I'm just waiting for the locusts ... and I've painted the door jamb on the house with lambs blood just in case.

As for her Obama vote (she's always been a solid Democrat vote even though she has no idea what any of the Dem candidates really stand for), keep in mind she's from Kansas ... so dead or alive her vote for Obama won't count for much (I don't think a Democrat has won Kansas since JFK, and I think he's only one of four Dem presidents to ever win there).

[Rucker61]

Good for you, Gladys. Sounds like her last days were great days. I hope I'm that lucky.

+1. She sounded like a wonderful person. RIP.

[Zundfolge]

+1. She sounded like a wonderful person. RIP.
She wasn't perfect, but she was always full of life ... more so than many people I know half her age.

However, she and my wife had a very strained and difficult relationship that ironically had a great deal of mending while we were evacuated for the Waldo Canyon fire (they had a few pretty deep conversations during that time and several pretty serious wounds got healed and longstanding conflicts settled).

For that I feel we were blessed.

[theGinsue]

Absolute +1 for that!

Our time here is short & we never know when death will take us. It's good to mend all relationships that you can as soon as you can; just in case of a situation like this.

I am absolutely against many of the decisions my 20 year old son continues to make, but I take every opportunity to tell him, and my daughter, just how much I love them - especially as they leave my house - because I don't know if it will be my last chance to do so.

[spittoon]

Sorry for your families loss.