Time for a new post
We're having a Referendum Vote in Alberta Oct 19th, on whether the Province pursue the idea of separating from the rest of Canada and a few other items that ask if the Province should have more control over issues such as Immigration and priority for hiring Alberta residents over others. (I think that's a nod toward the Student Visa scam we're seeing, particularity in Ontario) They also want to have the current Equalization Payment Plan re-written.
Some of those questions will require a Constitutional change, which make them highly unlikely, given they would require unanimous agreement of the Provinces/Territories and the Federal Government.
I'll know on the 20th which way the wind is blowing.
Update to last post
My Wife saw the ENT yesterday, and he said all is good, no Cancer, come back in another year.
He explained, the Dentist (who suggested the follow-up) was probably not familiar with seeing the end results of the reconstructive surgery done for her Tonsil Cancer.
I guess now she can inform the Dentist, and hope it will get passed along to Colleagues.
God damn sums it up.
Too many small things that can't be mentioned without it turning into a novel.
The Reader's Digest version would be watching his passions and dreams being taken away.
4mo ago Wisdumb of the Aged - Thoughts and Lessons Learned from an Old Guy
Cancer would be listed as the reason of Death, I know it was the thousand small things that drained his life and will to live.
God damn.
Dave is gone, left on May 3rd, four days after I arrived.
They asked him on Friday evening if he was ready to sleep more, and he consented to being given a regularly scheduled dose of sleep and pain meds.
Early Sunday afternoon, while his Step-Daughter and I held his hands, he took his final breath.
I'm glad he is free and that I was there for the moment.
Cancer would be listed as the reason of Death, I know it was the thousand small things that drained his life and will to live.
5mo ago Wisdumb of the Aged - Thoughts and Lessons Learned from an Old Guy
@throwaway_old_guy it's good you can at least make it
I've had to miss a few funerals over the years for various reasons
I talked to his Step-Daughter today, Hospice Doctors are saying a few weeks is a reasonable timeline.
Time to look at flights.
5mo ago Wisdumb of the Aged - Thoughts and Lessons Learned from an Old Guy
@throwaway_old_guy that sucks.
Another update on my long-time Friend.
He moved into Hospice yesterday, on the one year anniversary of his Wife's sudden death. He called me the day before and told me he was going there and didn't want any questions asked.
He is having trouble swallowing, and in turn isn't eating much. His Step-Daughter had a heart-to-heart with him about it because she noted a rapid decline over the prior week. She is involved in the Medical Field and familiar with the signs and she may have pulled some strings to line up Hospice in short order.
She told him that it was either go now and be in a good place, or take a chance and end up being in Emergency Care while on a wait list. Wisely, he set aside his normally obstinate thinking and chose the first option.
I am waiting to hear back from his Step-Daughter on what kind of timeline they are expecting as we want to book a flight to go see him before it's too late. His 69th Birthday is in early June and is not expected to live until then.
It's been a shitty few years for him, to say the least.
Some of it was a direct result of him willfully choosing to not deal with the realities of life surrounding him (Happy Wife, Happy Life and it's not worth the fight) and the Cancers took away his ability to work, not just for income, on his own passion projects in his dream shop. Most of that was either sold for less than what it was worth, given away or hauled to the dump.
During one dump run, I told him to go stand at the front of my truck and not look because I knew just how painful it would be to see so many parts that he had carefully scavenged from wreckers being tossed into the pit. I felt the pang of loss as I did it.
That was about the time he stopped Chemo. Looking back, it seems obvious he no longer felt had the will to keep going and just wanted to have a clear head on the way out.
I can only hope they keep him comfortable up to his last moments and I get to see him one last time.
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