Mary Posch decorated for Christmas. She knew that if her husband came home from the hospital, he would welcome the sight.
Donald Posch had been baking Christmas cookies with his wife, Mary, in early November when the two of them initially came down with cold-like symptoms. By mid-month, Posch had stopped eating and was barely drinking.
But he never got out. Instead, hours before he died in Kenmore Mercy Hospital, she was finally allowed at his bedside and told her partner of more than 30 years what she knew he needed to hear. Don, she said, if you re ready to go, I will be fine.