Very sorry to hear of your loss... but about that really great day you had - it was the same thing with my grandmother. She was declining for sometime and when we visited her on December 234d, she was just like my old, not-sick Mom Mom. It was wonderful. She was talking and laughing and we thought maybe, just maybe, she'd be able to pull through. But she died at 12am on Christmas Day. Soo... I think those types of days are gifts from God, so that we can remember them as some other way than ill or sad or whatever. I'm glad you had that day with your father, just like I had my day with my Mom Mom.