Hi all,
Want to thank you all for the lovely kind words!
I am home now, we just got back late this afternoon.
Wanted to update you all. Sorry to say, it isn't good news. The doctor put her time of death as Monday, March 1, 2010 at 4 pm. She was admitted to the hosptial around noon on Saturday the 6th, because she was unresponsive for her daughter and her Significant Other that morning. She was hooked up to life support and the hospital did many tests. She also went into a coma sometime that day. They discovered that she had had an aneurisym(?), we found out that is was very large. They said she never suffered. Monday morning when the doctors read the tests they said her top part of her brain that makes you who you are and makes you do your daily activities was already gone. Later on they said that the bottom of the brain (sorry, I am not good at medical terms and we've been told so much, it's hard to take it all in and remember all) that goes to the spinal cord to make your organs function, etc., was also unresponsive, completely shut down and there was nothing they could do.
After talking with all the family, we decided to donate several of her organs to help other people get a second chance, even though she didn't have it on her drivers license, she had to talked about it with her SO, Barry. It was a hard decision, but in the end, I think a good one. She will now live on in others. Her heart, kidneys (two people), and liver, have hopefully helped 4 people in great need. They decided not to take her lungs and pancreas because of her smoking and drinking history.
They started the surgerys to remove her ograns around 12midnight Wednesday. She was then creamated(?) (sorry, to tired to look up spellings) and we had a service at the Greenhill Funeral Home on Thursday morning at 11am. It was a very nice service and very sad!
My youngest daughter and mother drove down from South Dakota, my oldest sister and her husband flew in from Arizona. Tami's three children were there and her SO, Barry and several friends.
We are going to have a service sometime in our hometown of Yankton, South Dakota, so my other sister and brother that were unable to attend and there children can be there, and all of Tami's old friends. She will be buried near my mothers plot that is paid for and my deceased sister that died at birth and was a twin of my oldest sister.
None of us had seen my oldest sister in 7 years, so it was great to see her, but wasn't the way we wanted to be brought together.
I'm feeling so bad for my sisters children, especially the youngest, 19 years old with a baby that will one on April 9th, and her SO, Barry, they are going to have the hardest time.
It's such a shame when our loved ones pass at such an early age.
Thanks again all.
