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My experience of losing my wife.

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My beloved wife fulfilled her final wish a few weeks ago, she purposely ended her own life on her own schedule, surrounded by her mother, her best girlfriend and by myself - she was sitting at our home in her favorite armchair - with her own humor and a lovely smile she opened the roller clamp of the infusion. And within a few seconds she drifted off to sleep. I watched the whole time - and she had a relaxed facial expression - not a single sign of pain or suffering. She was in the mid of her fifties. She was diagnosed 11 year ago with a fatal and quick worsening type of Multiple Sclerosis. And I was her main care giver during these 11 years - available for her 24/7. And after all these years my wife and I realized in the last few months and weeks that for sure she was the one who counts most - but the pivotal element of all was her disease and the history of her disease. My wife was tired and exhausted from fighting against her disease. She had no intention of allowing the disease to