Kingdom Respite Services/Parish Nurses of Callaway County

Well, they asked me to write something about my experience with Kingdom Respite Care.  I had a wonderful volunteer for the last few months of my husband’s life.  He came two times a week and they just visited about sports, mostly fishing.  How my husband loved to fish and how he missed it.  Telling those old stories brought him such joy and I am grateful that our volunteer seemed to enjoy hearing them over and over.  Near the end, when my husband couldn’t talk much and slept a lot, our volunteer would just sit with him talking as though it was another day of two old friends talking about the “one that got away”. 

            After my husband passed, I started getting little things in the mail from Kingdom Respite.  Something about every four weeks or so, to help me with my grief.  It was nice to be remembered and the material did help.  One day I went to the mailbox and there was a card from them.  They had remembered that it would have been our anniversary and they sent me an anniversary card.  What a beautiful thought!  No one else had acknowledged that day and I was very blue, very tearful.  That card means more to me than anything else I got the whole year.  I have worn the edges out reading and rereading it.  An anniversary card.  Such a little thing, but such a wonderful thing to do for me.  How I miss the fish stories.  How I wished I had been more patient and listened to them all.  God bless our wonderful volunteer.