Complications from diabetes takes ‘a good woman’
“My wife had diabetes, and she liked to eat sweets. I would tell her, ‘Baby, please stay away from that.’ She would say to me, ‘Are you a doctor?’ I would say, ‘No, I’m not a doctor. But I watch TV. I see things. It’s not good for you.’ She had to get shots, in the morning and at night. She had to take pills. Her blood pressure was going lower. It was not a good sign. So she had to go into the hospital. She stayed six months. After that, she lost so much weight. I couldn’t believe it. I cried. I waited until her eyes were closed. I didn’t want her seeing me like that. Then she went into a nursing home. I stayed with her all the time. She started getting more and more medicine, and I guess it was all too much. Her kidneys, her heart, they just couldn’t take it. They tried to drive her to a hospital across from NASA. I was in the ambulance with her. But before they got there, she passed away.
“We were married 40 years. I’m not going lie. It’s hard. A lot of times I wake up at night and start thinking about her. When I do that, it’s hard to go back to sleep. It’s hard when I’m walking around the house and see her picture on the wall. We were together for a long time. I really miss her.
“I’m not perfect. Sometimes I argued with my wife. Oh, did she love to spend money, especially on clothes, expensive dresses. And you would not believe how many purses she had; shoes, too. She had two closets, just for all her things. She probably had 10 or 15 credit cards. I would tell her, ‘Baby, they will eat your lunch.’ But she just loved to go shopping. Near the end, she told me, ‘When I pass away, I want you to give all my clothes and shoes and purses and jewelry to charity.’ So that’s what I did. My wife, she was a good woman. She had a good heart.”
— Jimmy Saciri
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