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(21,086 posts)Visiting or Social Teachers back in the 1940's. She was an amazing person. I had one Grandmother growing up who was a pretty traumatized person and could not offer me the kind of Grandparenting that children crave and need. The other maternal/paternal Grandparents were all either dead or drunk.
She adopted me. As it turns out, her life work is used in various graduate level social work courses in the State of Michigan.
Lucky me.
She died one night of heart failure. Although she never complained, she was pretty tired of living with her various health problems. She had called me in obvious distress. All she had to say was my name on the phone and I knew she was in trouble. I told her I would be right there. So I went and she was prostrate on her bed when I arrived. I set her up, got her some water so I could assess what was happening. She took a sip of water and almost immediately suffered a massive heart attack. I held her hands as she raised them up. She died. I knew now she was gone but I tried to follow thru on the obvious medical emergency.
I went to the phone and tried to dial out to 911. No response. I went across the hall to the neighbors apt. and called from there. But when you are the psychological granddaughter you know when its a lost cause. The EMT's arrive and did what they could which was nothing. She was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Julia never married. She loved a WWI soldier who never returned.
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