End-of-Life Memorial Arrangements Fundraiser
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Dearest Facebook friends and family, I have been agonizing over how to write this latest and final update for a few weeks now....I have been up virtually every night till four or five or six in the morning, struggling with the end-of-life realities that our family is having to face....
Roopa has been completely confined to bed since the middle of August, with her respiratory condition getting weaker and weaker (her lung capacity has decreased to below 60%, as the lower lobes of her lungs have stiffened and no longer inflate), and so her pain levels are consistently getting higher, and basically her body is just giving up....And every single day and night is just a continuation of a struggle to make peace with her home going....
Being with Roopa these past 19 plus years has been the very best part of my entire life, I just cannot begin to accept that this chapter is over...But her illness is really not letting us decide anything....Many of you have seen firsthand my wife’s brave and beautiful spirit in the face of suffering that many can’t even begin to comprehend; And she has lived this way for the better part of 15 years, so her precious body is simply wore out, even though her spirit continues to shine through...
There have been so many times that I have believed God put her here just for me....that her real home has always been in heaven, but she was just put here for a little while, too rare a flower to be away from its heavenly environment, but I was, for some reason, privileged enough to be entrusted with her. I knew when I met her in March 2001 that she was unspeakably different from anyone I had ever known before...I just somehow knew that there was no one like her anywhere on this earth, and I must’ve asked God every day for those first three months “Please Lord, let her fall in love with me, I’ll never ask you for anything ever again”..
And for almost 20 years now, my heart has had a home, a sanctuary.....a place to be at perfect rest....No matter what is going on in the world, if she’s in the same room with me, I feel completely at peace.....I truly wish all of you could have known her as I do.....If God could take the beauty of nature, song, and poetry, and put all of that into one single person, it would be my Roopa.....
Please prayerfully consider helping us to Memorialize her most precious life......We have no coverage or insurance, as I was laid off in May after being on compassion leave, and we have no extended family or social support whatsoever, it’s just me, Roopa and Asha....
Roopa has been completely confined to bed since the middle of August, with her respiratory condition getting weaker and weaker (her lung capacity has decreased to below 60%, as the lower lobes of her lungs have stiffened and no longer inflate), and so her pain levels are consistently getting higher, and basically her body is just giving up....And every single day and night is just a continuation of a struggle to make peace with her home going....
Being with Roopa these past 19 plus years has been the very best part of my entire life, I just cannot begin to accept that this chapter is over...But her illness is really not letting us decide anything....Many of you have seen firsthand my wife’s brave and beautiful spirit in the face of suffering that many can’t even begin to comprehend; And she has lived this way for the better part of 15 years, so her precious body is simply wore out, even though her spirit continues to shine through...
There have been so many times that I have believed God put her here just for me....that her real home has always been in heaven, but she was just put here for a little while, too rare a flower to be away from its heavenly environment, but I was, for some reason, privileged enough to be entrusted with her. I knew when I met her in March 2001 that she was unspeakably different from anyone I had ever known before...I just somehow knew that there was no one like her anywhere on this earth, and I must’ve asked God every day for those first three months “Please Lord, let her fall in love with me, I’ll never ask you for anything ever again”..
And for almost 20 years now, my heart has had a home, a sanctuary.....a place to be at perfect rest....No matter what is going on in the world, if she’s in the same room with me, I feel completely at peace.....I truly wish all of you could have known her as I do.....If God could take the beauty of nature, song, and poetry, and put all of that into one single person, it would be my Roopa.....
Please prayerfully consider helping us to Memorialize her most precious life......We have no coverage or insurance, as I was laid off in May after being on compassion leave, and we have no extended family or social support whatsoever, it’s just me, Roopa and Asha....
Organizer
Mark Judy
Organizer
Spruce Grove, AB