Sounds like he is a very sweet soul. As kicker said, time, just time. I know it took me awhile to adjust to it and all the stages of grief I went through. Since he is now in a living situation that he is just no visiting and then leaving and he is actually living there, he has to adjust to it also and in his own way. He might be able to draw out some of that fun cool aunt again though. I know I have vowed to always be the best Gradnma and aunt that I can be even if it is from a wheel chair or scooter like I have to be when I go to an amusement park with them. And it is enlightening for the young ones to actually know some one who has a disability. It lessens the chance of them bullying some one who has one. They grow up more tolerant.

I loved it when the show 'Growing up Fischer' was on. The Dad was blind but he led his life as a father and husband like he wasn't and his young boy never had to think about his Dad being blind because he was so much fun. Never can understand why they cancelled it after one season