My BFF

I'm thinking about my best friend Tari today. That's one of my favorite pictures of her on the left. Her Aunt Jill passed away at the hospice house late yesterday as Tari held her hand and prayed for to be delivered peacefully right into God's hands. My heart is heavy knowing how sad she is today. She has been Jill's power of attorney for a couple years now I believe it was. I'm not the best with time so forgive me please if I'm off a bit. She'd helped Jill move from living independently in her own home to an assisted living apartment nearer to Tari's family but in the past year she's became more ill off an on. After her last hospital stay Jill was unable to go back to her apartment and instead had no choice but to move into the nursing home in Conrad. She just seemed to be continuing not to thrive there, eating very little since about April, continuing to lose weight, experience more pain and eventually becoming extremely thin and weak. I remember just a couple months ago maybe it was that Tari & I were shopping and she'd told me she wasn't sure what Jill had been diagnosed with exactly. It seemed as though the Doctor's weren't entirely sure themselves but kept treating the immediate issues and continued with more testing. Jill had smoked for most of her life and even when put on oxygen a few months ago she continued smoking which I'm sure was a contributing factor to her premature passing. I remember Tari being quite disturbed when Jill told her that 'She would die this year'. Things had progressed so quickly that it took Tari by surprise hearing her say that and I too was taken aback when a couple days after our shopping trip we were notified that Jill was under hospice's care.
Tari is the kind of woman that's very loyal, very loving, extremely connected to her family and will go the ends of the earth for someone she loves. She and Jill were not unusually close over the years and Tari was given the job of POA because she was the closest in vicinity, she's always been the most reliable person in her entire family and no one else was willing to step up to such a great responsibility. Mind you Tari has been a full time college student for a few years now, has very new grandchildren, young adult children in college, a son that just went to Afghanistan, another who was married 2 weeks ago in Texas that she'd gotten ordained online for when they requested she perform their ceremony, she's started a coop job over the summer at a local company in hopes of networking for later employment after she completes her last year of her degree when the coop ends AND continues to be a full time Mom to her 2 adopted boys in elementary school who suffer from many behavioral issues stemming from their damaging time with drug addicted birth parents before moving from foster home to foster home! And in all of that she also gave her Aunt Jill one of the greatest gifts a human being can give to another. Unconditional love, support, her heart and caring for her until her very last breath upon this earth. She's my hero! And one day we'll do the same for each other. I love you my old Same :)