Three Months Gone In A Blink Of An Eye

Last posting for me was the week of Christmas, now it is the first week of April. Much has changed in my personal landscape since last I pushed the button for this blog. Oh, there were times when I could have written something, anything but... well I was not necessarily in a "good place" to do so. Let me explain...
The last week of 2010 and the very first week of 2011 my bride and I were confronted with some alarming news. Her dad who has been a strong long time survivor of emphasyma and battling prostate cancer was diagnosed with bone cancer. When the call came we packed the car, got the dogs medicines, caged the parrot, balanced the check book and drove through the night arriving the next day to my in-laws home. We had only left a few months before to spend the holidays with our grandkids but returning south and now taking one look at my father in law I knew something was seriously different. Within two weeks time of our arrival I knew all his doctors names, the new meds he was taking, and saw that he was rapidly deterioting. Painful as it is to watch, it had to be more times over painful for him to expierience. Soon he was admitted to the hospital, then a rehabilation home, then back to the hospital and finally, hospice.
His children arrived as did some friends to spend his final hours with him. Every so gently he slipped in to the long night. Arrangements were made, and when it was all said and done two full months had passed. It was now the end of February. As is life nothing comes singularly but usually in lumps of things, Deaths in threes, bad news, etc etc... So was the month of March.
Things are slowly getting back to what could never be considered "normal" but are more tolerable, therefore a moment to post this blog. Until next time, jazzbus@gmail.com