My 95 year old father passed away in November 2023. He was in an AL with my 92 year old mother who has dementia. They were married for 72 years. Last week, on a Saturday evening, my mother had a fall, spent hours in the ER before returning back to the AL, no serious injuries, but traumatized none the less. The next evening, the attending aide told me my father's pager went off...it had his name on the message. How? No one knows as it doesn't exit anymore and hasn't ever gone off since he passed. My mother is unable to use her call button because she can't remember she has one. My father always used his if she needed help. Anyway, the aide decided he'd better check on my mother and when he went to her room, there was a feather right in front of her door. This is an indoor apartment and it was a dove feather, not something from a pillow or quilt. He checked inside and my mother was sound asleep. However, throughout the night, my father's pager continued to go off on the hour, 7 times. Each time my mother was checked on and she was fine. I believe, as do the aides, that my father was making sure they knew she should be checked on regularly and that he was still watching over her. This incident made quite an impact on the staff as well as our family. The aide actually gave me the feather and I intend to have it framed and placed in her room. I still get chills and tear up relating this story...just had to share with those of you who can relate.
Blessings
What a beautiful story! Thanks for sharing. I love that you are going to frame the feather. You will smile every time you see it.
Honestly, I have many curios thoughts about the ‘afterlife.’ No one has any actual proof of anything.
Nor can anyone disprove anything. So, hey…I am open to believing in miracles. Certain things cannot be explained and are viewed as a ‘supernatural’ experience.
I have heard many wonderful stories from aides and nurses. I don’t know why they would have any reason to make up their stories.
I find some of the ‘near death stories’ questionable. They are fascinating and again, no one can prove or disprove the facts.
I read the book, ‘Heaven is for Real,’ about the little boy who claimed to have a ‘near death experience.’ Later on he confessed to feeling pressure from his dad and said that he made up the entire story!
One of the most interesting NDE books that I have read is one written by Howard Storm, ‘My Descent Into Death A Second Chance At Life.’ Anne Rice wrote the forward.
Howard Storm was raised to be a believer by his Christian parents. He became an atheist in his adult life as an art professor. He suffered a heart attack in Europe and had a profound near death experience. It’s a quick read and truly fascinating.
I do find the psychics who prey on a person’s vulnerability while grieving to be disgusting. They use trickery such as cold and hot reading. It’s sad that people get swindled out of their money by these scam artists.
There may be a few people who are clairvoyant, but there are tons of frauds in this field who are draining people of their money.
He was raised by Christian parents. Became an atheist as an adult. A worldly art professor who traveled extensively throughout Europe. Had a heart attack in Paris. Experienced an incredible NDE. His wife thought that he was nuts and divorced him! He ended up becoming a believer in God and has remarried. It’s a great book with lots of twists and turns.
I also find Eban Alexander, ‘Proof of Heaven’ to be fascinating. Incredible story!
My late Dad communicates with me through an old mantel clock [that hasn't run in years] that had belonged to my parents. My Dad and I were very close, thus he knew I would figure this out.
The clock would emit a very woodsy odor, and the next day I will get a phone call that a relative had passed [a relative that I didn't know had been ill]. The clock has been odor free this past year as there have been no passings, thank goodness, just a mild odor on Christmas Day :) What's also interesting is that the odor will disappear a few minutes after I notice it.
The most bizarre dream I’ve ever had was about my own funeral as a child! I think that I had it because my parents took us to a lot of wakes and funerals and my great aunt told me that the person in the casket was only sleeping! Of course, I became afraid to go to bed because I thought that I would become stuck in a casket.
In my dream though, I was floating above my body and I saw everyone crying. I told them all to stop crying because I was fine. I realized that they couldn’t hear me screaming because I was dead. I knew nothing about the afterlife as a child other than there was a God and a heaven where people were supposed to go to after they die.
Blessings.