Mrs. Brass and Family

My name is Denise Brass.
I am a widow.
My husbands name was George Brass IV.
My Boys are Isaac 9, Isaiah 7, Benjamin 4 and Simeon 2
Fave Scripture: Psalm 143:7-8
I do not work outside the home.

MY STORY

In July of 09 my husband started have some diarrhea. Of course he had never been sick a day in his life so he just figured that’s all it was. It went on for about 2 months, and when it became pretty painful we went into the ER. It was there they told us he had a tumor in his rectum and they could also see from the cat scan some lesions on his liver. They admitted him on October 9, 09. They ran a world of tests, and on Oct. 13 we met with the team of Dr.s that had been assigned to him. Of course it was my absolute worse nightmare come true. And even as I write this I want to just scream at the top of my voice, and honestly I still cant believe that he is gone!

He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which had spread to his liver. He also had some blot clots in his legs and one of them had gone up into his lung. There was really nothing they could do. They couldn’t put him on blood thinners for the clot because that could have caused him to bleed to death. They had reluctantly considered doing a colostomy but were afraid more clots would released or his other one would travel, and the same with chemo- they were afraid of bleeding out from the tumor. I felt like every door was just slammed shut, and I spent a lot of my days on my face on the floor in the hospital bathrooms pretty much begging my Father for the life of my husband, the father of our boys.

We came home after about a week of being there and his pain was not being managed so we ended back in the ER a week later and when they did another cat scan they said the cancer had also spread to his stomach and lungs. UH!!! So he asked me what i wanted to do and I said I wanted him home with me- not in the hospital- until God either healed Him or took him home. So thats what we did; we left him in God’s hands. ( that was around Oct. 27) So i spent the next days just loving him. He was pretty medicated on morphine so he would sleep a lot. I would just wake him and tell him what a great man he is and have him tell me that he loved me. I would lay my head in his neck and just smell him and just try be as close to him as I could.

He woke a few days later and his eyes were yellow and I just knew it wouldn’t be long. But still I was hanging on to Jesus, fervently praying for my husband’s life. I can see now looking back how God wrapped his life up. Everyone in his family and all those who loved him had come to visit him, sing praises to the Lord with him, pray with him and tell him they loved him. Who gets that? He went home to heaven Nov. 6, 09 at 11:20 pm. He died in my arms with me loving on him until there wasn’t a breath left in his body. I miss him greatly- we all do. Sometimes he would have a really “awake” moment even though he was on so much morphine. One time i was losing it and he called me over to him because he said he wanted to help me.

He hugged me and told me “Honey, you have to remember Jesus. You need to include him in to the situation. He is here to help us, don’t forget to include Him.”

And that’s what I do every day now and He has been faithful to help!

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