Lessons Learned from Taking Care of a 102 Year Old in Her Final Year

As I have written before in April of last year my wife and I decided to take in my 102 year old mother in law when her second husband, whom she married at 93, was sent to a nursing home. Amazingly that resulted in moving her out of their independent senior housing apartment.

Well she peacefully passed way yesterday morning at the age of just days past 103 1/4. As my wife’s cousin said in call yesterday, “ amazing, but she didn’t break the record of (my mother in law’s) aunt Edith (103 1/2 in 1988).”

I’ve always have read about what people have learned when reflecting on a loved one’s life when caring for them in their final days, and thought, yeah, right. However, I have found out it is true.

In the coming weeks and months I have decided to share some of these thoughts on what I learned and how it will hopefully, with a lot of help, change me as a person.

WARNING: These posts will have nothing to do with money as she always lived on very little.

But for the present time, it’s time for family to gather and celebrate a truly amazing woman’s amazing life.