Farewell Aunt Emmy

It has been a rough week for our family, on Saturday we lost our Aunt Emmy. She was Sophie's great aunt and she was actually more like a grandmother to her. It was a small funeral on Wednesday and I was a paul bearer, which I was proud to do as I loved Aunt Emmy as well. She was a 20 year survivor of breast cancer, but in the last two months she had slid from remission in to a cancerous state again. She went into the hospital in December, and she never really came back. It is horrible to watch someone go through what she went through. The last time I saw her was right after Christmas and Sophie and gone to see her at least ever week while she was being moved around from the hospital to a nursing facility. They started to give her chemo again, but after they started she experienced a fairly swift decline. Her memory was slipping a little bit at the end of the year, but she still had that spunky aunt Emmy side that would come out and tell you how it was. Sophie said towards the end she was a lot less talkative and that final Saturday Sophie and her mom spent most of the day with her before we had to go to a birthday party. Needless to say we didn't feel much like a party, buy it was relatives from the other side of her family, so they really weren't experiencing the same thing. After the party we got 'the call' that she had passed. We were very sad, because aunt Emmy was always full of life and the kids really loved her. Sophie has pictures of her and Sampson putting puzzles together, that is what they did when she came to stay, they worked on puzzles. The kids didn't go to the funeral and it was a good idea because there weren't many people there and it was during the week and they didn't really understand. I feel bad that they never really got to see her, to kind of give her a good-bye, but when we broke the news to Sampson he really didn't understand. I think he kind of understands death, but how do you really explain that type of stuff to a 5 year old. My mom came to stay with them during Tuesday visitation and the service on Wednesday and someday when they want to say good-bye I will take them to the cemetary so they can say farewell. Farewell Aunt Emmy may you rest in peace, you will be missed.