Hi, and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Amy Robbins. I'm a

clinical psychologist and medium, and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means.

Today on the show, I actually have another ghost story.

So if you haven't listened to Laura's ghost story, it was a couple months back.

A friend of Laura's actually reached out because their fathers, it seems, may have worked to try to connect the two of them.

Here's Emily's story.

My father was a smart man and a silly one. He was a true kid at heart. He was also a musician, skilled at the guitar, piano, and singing. Music was a big part of his

life, and he made it a big part of mine. He was the one that taught me

my first guitar lessons and took me to piano class. I even shared the competition stage with him

when I was part of a Polynesian dance production company. He was the guitarist, and it was an honor to perform

with him. In mid-2014, it was a complete shock to everyone when he was diagnosed with dementia

and early onset Alzheimer's.

He also had a brief history of kidney failure after his diagnosis.

Earlier in January of this year, he suffered a second heart attack and developed an aggressive

form of pneumonia. He spent about three weeks of being on life support ventilator machine

and went through several dialysis sessions, which ultimately failed due to a ruptured fistula.

My father showed signs of three major organ failures,

the heart, the kidneys, and the brain. He passed away in January 26, 2019. Losing a loved one

is a hurt that is unimaginable, and it was difficult to imagine my life without my father.

I constantly asked myself, how could I continue living a regular life? I had only danced with my

father at my wedding three months before and late October 2018, and now he was gone. How could that be? Dancing with my father on that day was one of

the most unforgettable and special moments of my life, because although he was beginning to forget people,

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