Wow. That's how my sister described it. And my Mom was an RN too. Amazing.
Something else I noted was, though my mom appeared to be in a deep sleep at times, yet she would make statements out of the blue quite abruptly and out loud...as if she was talking with someone else. Like people do when they talk in their sleep.
One time she addressed me by name...as if we’d been in conversation... but we had not had conversation for some hours.
I found myself hanging on her every breath...somehow still hoping she might decide to stay . On one occassion I said..”Mom remember when I was a little girl and would come to your room late at night when I didn’t feel well and....”
I never finished the sentence... she lifted up her covers so I could come up to her bed and snuggle as I did when a child. And I did just that... Our faces just inches from one another then, A nurse came in soon after and broke into tears when she saw us embrassed... It was surely a mother and daughter moment.
I have always hoped.. other people who are ‘with’ those dying would have such tender moments. These help to take the “sting” out of death...just as He said He would do.