Update on Percy Gordon Shaul. Yesterday me and our combined family had to make the most gut wrenching decision I think that I have ever had to make in my life. I have had the doctors here at Piedmont Newnan Hospital asking me to talk to them about end of life counseling for Percy. They have tried every thing that they have known to do to try to heal my beautiful, loving husband to no avail. He sat at our kitchen the other day and out of the blue, before he got so sick, he told me All of your family have told me how hard you tried with Sonny to keep him alive, would you do the same for me? I instantly answered him In a New York second! Looking back at last week now, I am thinking that he knew how sick he really was. This episode ended up with him here on life support for about a total of 8 days with them trying to help him. The doctors even said that they would be willing to transport him to Emery University Hospital which is one of the finest in the metro Atlanta area and that he would put me on speaker phone while he talked to them so that I could hear what they said. The 8 pints of blood plus all the plasma, the antibiotics and the pain meds, the ventilator, and everything else that they have tried did not work. We asked them to bring him out of the induced coma so that the family could make peace with him leaving us and make sure that he knew how much he was loved. We could ask him question with a yes or no answer and because of the vent tubing, ask him to squeeze our hand for an answer. I told him that he was probably one of the most Blessed men in to world to have that much love surrounding him from both of our families. I am so proud to have had him in my life for the past years. He has always been my Hero, my Captain Percy Gordon Shaul, my love and my life. Most women can not honestly tell you that they have been truly loved in their life, but with pride and utter awe, I can honestly say that I have been loved by TWO men in my lifetime. It took me a while after losing Sonny to decide on whether I wanted to do this again, but I did it so good the first time, I wanted more. My Captain Percy is a decorated Viet Nam and Korean war two time bronze star medalist with so many other medals that we have proudly on display on what we jokingly call Our Wall of Fame where our combined family pictures were framed and hung of both of our families. I am so proud of the two sons, Stephen, Dee and her 5 beautiful daughters who is Stephens fiancée, and David Shaul , six grandchildren, Robert, Olivia, Ryan, Brian, Sandi, Madison and Katelyn, our two daughters, Chrissy Hanson and her husband, Lowell Hanson, and Dawn McClure Wingo and her husband, Chris Wingo and two great grandchildren, Bella and Emma Shaul. Also included in our family were his only sister, Helen Niles, nephew/nieces Mark (Sharky) Shaul, Robin Niles and Terry DeLude. What else can you do in life beside leaving children as a legacy as to what you gave to the world after you pass on. All of them have filled our lives with love, tenderness and pride of their accomplishments so far in their journey onward thru life. I can not say enough to let you know that this is breaking my heart to let him go, but the outcome would have been to have a vent tube put in his neck and a long term acute health care center, and Percy was a proud man who would not have wanted to exist that way for the remainder of time he had on earth. We had fortunately talked about it before, so I knew how he felt about it. Today he will be surrounded by his loved ones, all of them, including my sisters Kathy Smith, Sherri Bramlett, Kevin Trollinger which are my brother, sisters, nephews and nieces, as he goes to meet with our Lord and savior. Please pray for us as we go thru this grief and pain, and pray that Percy meets God with a smile on his face and a brand NEW body no longer holding all the pain he was having to feel. I will post arrangements for services in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, in Columbus where he lived and in Newnan where we live now. God bless all of you for your friendship to this wonderful man and for the love you have freely given him. None of our hearts will ever be the same, but the idea that I would have had to finish out my life without ever knowing Percy would not have made my life worth living, because of the love he has brought into our home and allowed me to walk thru it with him. I am so blessed. I love you Percy Gordon Shaul. Thank you for loving me so much.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:12:17 +0000
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