I couldn't decide whether to use the
or Wow emoji. Your account both and quite interesting. So yes, please post about what happened with your MIL. Thank you for sharing.
It was five years after my father in law died, My mother in law had been declining in health for some time, and had great difficulty breathing. Her body had shrunk noticeably in the last few months, and her chest had become barrel shaped. This apparently was caused by her lungs changing shape and shrinking in her chest.
Anyway, she was hospitalised one day and put on oxygen, and also given drugs to help her relax. The next day my wife and daughter went and stayed with her all day, and she began to perk up a bit, laughing and joking with the nurses. That evening she began to deteriorate somewhat, but my wife and daughter stayed with her overnight, so that they'd be there should anything change.
At around 4.30 - 5am MIL was sleeping peacefully so the two of them went outside to get some air, have a short nap, and to find some coffee and snacks to keep them going before going back to be with MIL. When they got back at around 8am she was comatose but seemed restless, and the nurses said she'd been like that since wife and daughter had left. Anyway, they then sat down to resume their vigil.
It seems that when my daughter held her grandmother's hand she felt something change, and within a minute or so MIL took a final breath and passed away, with a look of contentment on her face.
My wife said it was odd that her mother had held on till she and our daughter had returned, before she passed on.
I know it's not anything special in the greater scheme of things, but my wife in particular was struck by the way in which things changed when my daughter held her grandmother's hand. It confirmed for my wife how our daughter seems to have a connection to something that neither of us have. Personally I think it's skipped our generation, as I know that my mum told me that when her mother died, she instantly knew.
Apparently my grandmother had been dying of colonic cancer for some time, and was in hospital. My mum had been to see her that day, but had gone home and was fast asleep. At 1am she suddenly woke up, sat up in bed and said aloud "She's Gone!", even though my mum was on her own. The following day she visited the hospital again and was told her mother had passed away at 1am. So I know that some form of psychic connection existed between mother and daughter.
I think my daughter has been the inheritor of that ability, whether she knows it or not.
Oh, one other thing, which may or may not have any bearing on it, is the fact that all animals and babies love being with her, even aggressive dogs will become calm when she's near, and stranger's babies seem to take to her as though she was their own mother. I think they all recognise something in her that we can't see.
I realise I'm making my daughter sound like some kind of saint. She isn't. She can be a right PITA most of the time, but she is very insightful in many ways, even though she comes across as a bit of a long-lost hippy.