We are entering the end stages

I have been at this site for quite a while now and told the story of the love of my life. Yesterday it changed, actually it started changing Halloween night when my husband told me he was going to die from congestive heart failure before the alzheimers took him. He told me the pain in his chest has gotten worse and it is harder to breathe. I think he knows his time grows near and is in his own way trying to say goodbye to me. Yesterday something happened that I knew was coming but had prayed not yet. I got up early as usual and went to buy groceries, Ray normally is up late and sundowns. He had been up late so I thought it was safe to leave thinking he would not wake before I returned. I left at 6:00 and went to walmart, I wasn't gone an hour but returned home to find him up. He ask where I had been and I told him I went grocery shopping and he said he was glad and went back to bed. Around 11:00 he was in his room and started screaming my name, I ran to his room and he was sitting in his bed very upset I ask what was wrong and he said he was frightened I had left him. I assured him I hadn't nor would I ever. He settled down and went to sleep. I realized then that we had moved into the stage where he is becoming frightened of the changes in him and he fears being left alone. I don't know what to do. I knew this day was coming I had just prayed not yet. Unfortunately not yet has arrived. I love this man so and it hurts watching him suffer, as desperately as I want to hang on to him I now pray for strength to let him go if it is time and the strength to accept it.

Connie