Last week...:(

Last week was a very sad week for us. My husband lost his dad, my son lost his pawpaw and I lost my father in law. It was a little before 9 am on Monday April 2nd. I was at work and I got a phone call. I just assumed it was another crazy vendor calling me with some crazy drama. I was in receiving when I picked up the call and on the other end was Cliff and he said"hey its me, Debbie(Cliff's oldest sister) came over and dad died in his sleep last night." I screamed" Oh my God I am on my way." I took off running from the back of the store to the front. I can hardly walk when I am at work because my feet usually hurt so bad but somehow I ran to my office. I passed a few team members and by their reactions the look on my face must have been sheer panic. I got to my desk and collapsed my STL and HR came to me and try to console me but all I could think about was how am I gonna tell Hunter. He will never understand. A normal child doesn't understand death let alone a child with autism.I pulled myself together and called my bff Laurie to let her know. I left work and called Cliff he was ok but not ok. He said he would meet me at his moms house. When I got to his moms Cliff's siblings and aunt and uncle were there and my father in law was still there. It was bittersweet to see him one last time at home before they took him away . He passed away somewhere between 330am and 730am after being up all night sick. He laid there peacefully on his side like he just went to sleep. My father in law battled diabetes and heart problems. We assume congestive heart failure is what caused him to die.He was 71 young years old. The hard part was yet to come. Hunter Ray would be home at 345 from school and we had to explain to him his pawpaw went to heaven.