Nov 27, 2007 02:24 PM - I am sorry but I can't help but to cry. This was amazing and I believe in things like this.

Feb 27, 2008 03:11 AM - having seen and heard similar things over my nursing span, I have to believe that there is something to it. Beautiful rendition of an amazing event, Thank you so much for sharing it.....

Feb 27, 2008 06:24 AM - I don't think it's creepy. I find it comforting that her husband was looking after her and was going to be there when she died. Can you just imagine how Gladys would have reacted upon meeting her husband again? I hope they serve eternity in heaven , picking up where they left off.

Sweet story!

Mar 01, 2008 08:53 PM - What a wonderful story! Thank you so much for sharing. It makes me believe our loved ones are not that far away..

Mar 02, 2008 04:48 AM - My daughter is a MD/PHD student at Columbia, no one and I mean no one calls her at school, My mother, her grandmother past away the year before she finished her undergrad. Never got to see her graduate from college, but always encourage her in her dream of being a doctor. About 2 or 3 years later my daughter was really stressing about the work load she had taken on and was about to give it all up. She arrived at lab that day and the lab secretary told her she had a phone call that morning from her grandmother. No one, not even me knows the number of her lab. She was sure it was a mistake or wrong number. No insisted the lab secretary she asked for you by name and left no message "just tell her grandma called". We both knew then that grandma was with us and watching us. Needless to say she stuck it out and got her MD and it writing her thesis now for her Phd.

Apr 04, 2008 02:10 PM - I loved this story!
Everyone else that likes this kind of thing, have you read about Oscar the cat from the nursing home in RI??

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/does-ca...25172309990001

Hope you enjoy it, if you haven't already read about him.

Erica

Apr 13, 2008 12:39 AM - EKINRI....wow...that's awesome! I love reading stuff like this. It's funny how people try to explain away things that are out of the ordinary. Yes, the animal behavior researcher may be an expert, but then again....it was observed 25 times by doctors and nurses in person! There will always be things we cannot explain. If sharks can sense bodily movement under sand from the electrical impulses within muscles, who knows what other incredible senses do animals have that we are yet to discover!?

Apr 29, 2008 02:54 PM - after 32 years of nursing practice from hospital to home/hospice care, I have come to believe that not only do most of patients see and recognize loved ones that have already passed; but, they are there to make the pt's passing easier. The death is more peaceful and less traumatic. I also have sat at the bedside by patients that are not at peace spiritually and the death is cold, and dark, and restless for the patient and the caregivers. Over 32 years of practice, I will never be able to explain all that I've seen, but know that the events have made me wiser and more compassionate.

Apr 29, 2008 03:22 PM - I honestly believe it was her husband. I have always believed in these sort of things and even more after it happened to me.

My mom had been killed in a very ugly bus vs small car wreck, she being in the small car. My sister and I had gone to mom's house to pick out her stuff for the funeral. We felt very odd, as though Mom would come home any minute and yell at us for going through her stuff.
At one point, her phone in the living room rang. My sister was sitting on the arm of the sofa, and was closer to the phone than I was, but she didn't move to answer it. I ran, not wanting to hear Mom's voice on the answering machine. I picked up the phone on the second ring.
I hear, THROUGH THE RECEIVER, "Hi, this is Daisy."
Mother's name was Daisy. It was HER voice. It sounded of course, just like the beginning of her answering machine message. The rest of the message did not play. There was no sound of clicking like hanging up. There was no dial tone. Just, no pun intended, dead air. And it never sounded a dial tone until we hung up the phone again, just that eerie weird "feeling" of dead air.
My sister did not hear it, verifying that it was not the machine playing the message out loud into the room. I guess my face registered my shock, as she asked, "Who was it?? What's wrong now??"
I told her "It was Mom, calling to tell us she made it there, I think," and she too was as freaked out as I was. We tried and tried after that to make the machine play the message out into the room and it wouldn't do it unless you opened the machine and intentionally tried to. Other relatives are using that machine (with a different tape) and it has never ever done anything like that since.
I sincerely believe it was Mom calling us to tell us she had made it to Heaven. We had other things happen that seemed supernatural in the days after mother's death, but that was the first and the one that hangs on so strongly.

Apr 29, 2008 05:51 PM - Yes I believe it was her letting you and your sister know she was alright, what a beautiful thing