I don't post here often. You all may remember me as "Romanza," when I was in college I wrote for Peegs and got a free membership so I had to get a new username for the free membership...which is now SportsInc.
My wife passed away in May at the age of 30. It absolutely devastated me. She was my life. I met her while I was at IU (she was still a Sr at Bloomington South). We dated 5.5 years before we got married with no health issues (when she was a sophomore she got a kidney transplant from her dad). One month after our honeymoon, her transplanted kidney failed and she was on dialysis until her death.
She never let her health problems bother her. She never used it as a crutch. She had an odd way to deal with health issues as she would laugh at things. Some doctors couldn't believe how her family acted towards it. She was serious about it, but would go about it differently than most. (For instance, when you're on peritoneal dialysis, you have a long catheter coming out of your abdomen that drains fluid...basically pee. She always made jokes how her thing was longer than mine and she would whip it out and show it off...she always wanted to go into the mens room and see how it felt).
She got sick in late April, caught an infection, went into cardiac arrest and died...all within a week. It was horrible. It happened so fast and she got worse so fast I never got to say goodbye and I doubt she knew how bad it was. However, when she was living she was very open about what I needed to do if she died (funeral, burial vs cremation, where her ashes were to be spread). So I have spent the whole summer break (I teach HS) fulfilling all of her final wishes.
For her funeral service (which was a celebration like she wanted), I made a video for her with a Bruce Springsteen song and Pearl Jam song. That video is here, if interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avcxlBoorHE
It was posted on the official Pearl Jam forum. And my request was for them to play that song at the Wrigley Field show, no dedication or anything. Just for them to play it. The people on that forum made sure the thread stayed at the top for the next two months. Go to this video and watch at the 2:30 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIENVscu3A&feature=c4-overview&list=UUxdByFPoDkA3jjCxuJjIIvA
It was pretty amazing. And the first thing I thought is that my dear wife is still bringing me joy 76 days after she died. I will never forget what the band did for me and their tribute to my wife. How many bands would do that, seriously?
My wife passed away in May at the age of 30. It absolutely devastated me. She was my life. I met her while I was at IU (she was still a Sr at Bloomington South). We dated 5.5 years before we got married with no health issues (when she was a sophomore she got a kidney transplant from her dad). One month after our honeymoon, her transplanted kidney failed and she was on dialysis until her death.
She never let her health problems bother her. She never used it as a crutch. She had an odd way to deal with health issues as she would laugh at things. Some doctors couldn't believe how her family acted towards it. She was serious about it, but would go about it differently than most. (For instance, when you're on peritoneal dialysis, you have a long catheter coming out of your abdomen that drains fluid...basically pee. She always made jokes how her thing was longer than mine and she would whip it out and show it off...she always wanted to go into the mens room and see how it felt).
She got sick in late April, caught an infection, went into cardiac arrest and died...all within a week. It was horrible. It happened so fast and she got worse so fast I never got to say goodbye and I doubt she knew how bad it was. However, when she was living she was very open about what I needed to do if she died (funeral, burial vs cremation, where her ashes were to be spread). So I have spent the whole summer break (I teach HS) fulfilling all of her final wishes.
For her funeral service (which was a celebration like she wanted), I made a video for her with a Bruce Springsteen song and Pearl Jam song. That video is here, if interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avcxlBoorHE
It was posted on the official Pearl Jam forum. And my request was for them to play that song at the Wrigley Field show, no dedication or anything. Just for them to play it. The people on that forum made sure the thread stayed at the top for the next two months. Go to this video and watch at the 2:30 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIENVscu3A&feature=c4-overview&list=UUxdByFPoDkA3jjCxuJjIIvA
It was pretty amazing. And the first thing I thought is that my dear wife is still bringing me joy 76 days after she died. I will never forget what the band did for me and their tribute to my wife. How many bands would do that, seriously?