A Note about Nana

This is a note I wrote and posted on my Facebook while my grandmother was in the hospital. I'm re-posting it here because I'd like to have anything I manage to write all in one place. The picture was taken with my camera phone. I think the low quality of the picture means more to me than if I had been planing to take a picture and brought in the big DSLR. Those last days we had with her in the hospital changed me in a great way- I still feel the effect, and I'm so glad my family and I got them.



Nana

Nana moved out to Oregon the same time that we did. We shared a moving van and all lived in my Dad's tiny house while we looked for a house to buy. She lived her whole life in New York. Oregon has been quite the adjustment. Living near her family made it all worth it though. She turned 90 this last February and this July marked 7 years in Oregon. I've spent the last couple days in a hospital room with her and members of our family. She wasn't supposed to get this sick, we don't know why it got this bad, but now we find ourselves just making her comfortable. She sleeps mostly and adjusts her blankets. Sometimes we get a little glimpse at her eyes and she will say a word or two. She has no pain and is so peaceful. Even in her small movements you see the grace that she has always had. She has beautiful hands. All day she folded them over and under the blankets. She spun her wedding ring. My Grandpa put that wedding ring on her finger. Loosing Grandpa was so hard on her and I know she wants to go see him again. Really we can all be sad because we will miss her so much, but I am comforted by her peacefulness. Like she wants to go be with him now. I got a picture of her hands, they say so much about her.