Aunt Millie passed away peacefully around 11:20 a.m. this morning at Tranquility hospice in Austell, Georgia. She was 90 years of age.
Legally, Millie was my great aunt; "Granny's" younger sister.....but no one could have been a better example of a grandmother than she was too me. I won't lie....aunt Millie spoiled me rotten....from the time when I was sucking on a pacifier and wearing diapers until three nights ago when she surprised everyone who thought she was in a deep coma by rousing up to tell me she loved me....I was still her baby....would always be her baby.
I'm hurting so badly tonight folks....hurting as badly as when mom died, maybe worse. As badly as it hurts to lose someone you love suddenly without warning, it seems to hurt worse when you watch them slowly transformed by age and disease from a healthy happy independant woman who drove wherever she pleased until she was 82....to a scared, confused feeble little lady who couldn't understand why her legs no longer work...why her right hand and arm was always numb....why she was blind...why she was dying.
My humble thanks for your prayers and kind thoughts on our behalf....and my request you please continue to remember me in prayer. I'm a physical and emotional wreck tonight....drained, stressed, both ankles swelled from high blood pressure. I need the strength of my friends and the Lord to get me through aunt Millie's memorial service Monday....to remain strong when all I want to sit down and cry my eyes out.
Thanks...may God bless each of you
Perry
