I have been away taking care of my father-in-law who ended up passing away. The evening before I was going to leave to come home and his sister would arrive, I decided to sleep up in the guest room (and not on the couch next to the hospital bed downstairs). I wanted to get a good nights sleep and the oxygen machine was pretty loud. I was asleep when the bed began vibrating. I woke up and thought, Earthquake!, but then I remembered I was not in California. So, I said outloud "Dad needs me". Well, I also said "I am tired, let me lay here for 2 minutes, then I will get up". The bed started shaking violently, I sat up literally bouncing on the bed. I said "Ok, Ok...I'm getting up". I looked at the clock and it was straight up midnight...then I said "You would wake me up at midnight", "I don't do midnight...give me a couple of minutes".
The bed stopped shaking and I got up and went downstairs. My father-in-law was sitting on the end of the hospital bed, only wearing a sock, and had ripped his oxygen tubing out, and was disoriented. Yes, he did need me! This was the first time I had ever experience this kind of physical contact. I wasn't afraid at all! It was fantastic! Anyone else experience this before...now it was vibration and did not "touch" me. It shook the bed.
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