On The Third Day

That first day, my brother John arrived in PA in the evening with his wife and they stayed in my parents’ house (after ventilating it thoroughly, of course).  My brother Bob was on the next plane out from California and I can’t remember exactly when he arrived, but he was definitely there – also staying at my parents’ house – by the third day.

I’d been up at my parents’ house every day since it happened, as more and more out of town relatives arrived.  But the morning of the third day I remember most.  My dad, my sister, and my two brothers and I were sitting around in the living room, right after I got there.  I noticed we all had the same goofy looking inappropriate grins so I broached the subject.

“You know, I’ve been having the most intense experiences of Mom’s presence the last few days …”

I’d opened the floodgates.

“She’s in the house!” my father insisted.  “She was in bed with me last night!  I felt her get in bed, I felt her lying there, and I felt her get in and out of bed all night, just like she always did!  It was unbelievable!”

“And that’s not all,” added John.  “She can move things.  We lost Dad’s cane, OK?  It’s been pretty confusing over the last few days.  I wasn’t sure if we’d left it at the hospital or what.  In the meantime I gave him Mom’s cane to use.  Just before you got here Dad was walking down the hallway going one way, and I was walking down the hallway going the other way.  I looked at him and he definitely did not have either cane.  A few seconds after I passed him I felt this urge to turn around.  I did, and there was Dad, standing there with his cane in his hand! I swear – we tore this house apart looking for that cane and it was nowhere to be found.  And Dad has no idea how it ended up in his hand.”
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“Yes,” agreed Dad.  “I was just suddenly aware that I was holding it.”

“I can sense her and I can hear her walking around the house,” said my sister-in-law.  Everyone nodded excitedly.

“I had a lucid dream last night,” said Bob.  (A lucid dream is a dream where you are aware that you are dreaming – a conscious  dream).  “It was about her funeral!  Henry [my son] was supposed to play violin but we couldn’t find the violin, and you [pointing at me] were up front stalling for time while we were hunting for this violin. Everything was going wrong – it was a disaster, but there was Mom in the background, laughing and laughing! Rolling on the floor laughing!”

It was later that afternoon when my brother John actually SAW her.  He was at his in law’s house, lying on the sofa taking a brief nap.  With all the funeral preparations and things going on he was exhausted.  He woke up from the nap and saw her.  He said he didn’t really remember seeing anything besides her face.  She looked very happy, smiled at him, laughed, and disappeared.

“I know why she chose me to see her,” he said.  “It’s because we always used to sit there and argue about the existence of life after death.  She was laughing because she finally won that argument, hands down!”