still snowy thoughts

On this cold and snowing day I remember when Keith was very critical, we were told only a matter of hours before he would pass away, him in Yakima hospital and us on our way, Terry was driving with Mom over to pick me up, this is the first week of January,and that meant two passes between here and there, Terry had already driven nearly 4 hours to get here ,and we had nothing but trouble with Moms cables that they had on, Terry would get out of the car into freezing tempature to repair them,I know it was really hard on his fingers, but he was not going to stop us from getting there. , We didn,t know till then that they delayed shutting off the machines till we got there, somehow we found the hospital ,Mom and I went into his room, to say our goodby, Mom holding one hand and me the other, his wife was in the family room, and the nurse said go get her now, this feels just like it happen yesterday,and that was it, I am pretty sure I can never do that again,it took everything Terry had to get us there,I also had to do that for my Aunt Myrtle in 2001,Its amazing what god gives us the strength to do.