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My husband, Sam Densmore, passed away at 12:45 this morning after finally coming home on hospice last Monday. We thought we would have a few more weeks with him at home, perhaps even two months, but his poor body couldn't survive a final infection from the pressure ulcer and surgery to debride it. I think he never believed he was coming home in two weeks, or 5 days, but the morning we were to leave the hospital, he got excited for the first time, telling the nurse who was going with us that he wanted chocolate chip cookies, several times. When she was leaving, she commented, "Well, I'll see what I can do" and he replied "they're just around the corner", meaning the grocery store.
Sam had Parkinson's for 20 years. The neurologist who had also treated Michael J. Fox, told him he had the good kind - mostly tremor related symptoms. He dealt with it by going on with life and ignoring it (other than doctor visits and medication). He had just started a Parkinson's boxing class two weeks before he fell out of bed last March, damaging his spinal column (C3-4-5) which resulted in paralysis.
I married my best friend and it lasted 45 years. It wasn't always perfect, marriages seldom are, but it was the right choice for me and I think he would agree. We raised two beautiful daughters without whom we could not have made it through the past 4-1/2 months.. There's a piece of a song that keeps running through my mind as I write this, "Don't you knock on my door for I'm not there anymore. You can find me out walking in the sun." That's where I picture him.