FredEx
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Been thinking about this a lot since Saturday. Been avoiding thinking about it until then. Losing it right now thinking about it. <deep breath>
Going to take some explaining, so please bare with me as I ramble on.
Back about 5 weeks ago my oldest brother, Larry, started having problems. Instead of staying in his reclining chair to take a nap as he usually did, he went to bed in the daytime. They could hardly wake him up later. When he finally got up his left eye was wonky, I guess is how you UK folks might say it. It was not looking straight when the other was. They were doing tests and noting was figured out yet when he was then in a great deal of pain in his left side and went to the emergency room. I'll cut through the other crap and get to the point, he has terminal cancer. The more they look, the more they find. They don't know how he has handled the pain and also since it is in his spine too, they are shocked he still walks. The eye thing, a tumor behind his eye. Pancreas, liver, spleen bones, brain, spine, colon... I think you get the severity of it. We had a benefit for him March 2nd, Saturday, in the small town he lives in. Their population is about 1800, mostly farm people and a lot of kids, we know they aren't rolling in money. We had 1300 meals sold at the benefit. We had about 200 items donated for a silent auction and a ton of homemade baked goodies to sell and everything was bought. A very overwhelming thing to see. I had a friend 2500 miles away I have never met in person (went to school with her dad and mom) and she alone donated two $900.00 USD web page packages to the auction. People like her and more donating. My two nephew's who are 31 and 33, two of their best mates that are brothers paid for a charter fishing boat to take just them and their dad (my brother) out for a day of fishing yesterday.
I need to get another system going before I put this one on-line folding 24/7 (if it doesn't put my electric bill through the roof). I'm on it all the time now since I can't work, can't be much worse. My dad died at 44, 42 years ago come May from terminal cancer when I was just 16 the same month, it was a month before my sister's wedding, both his parents died of cancer before I was born. My bro-in-law has Leukemia from fighting in Vietnam...Agent Orange. They said he'd last maybe 10 years if he was lucky, been 15 now. The government pays him, a whole hell of a lot that does when they have fucked your life up.
I don't know when, but I have to do it, start folding. I appreciate what you all are doing.
Just had to let this out, hard to here at home since we are all going through it.
Going to take some explaining, so please bare with me as I ramble on.
Back about 5 weeks ago my oldest brother, Larry, started having problems. Instead of staying in his reclining chair to take a nap as he usually did, he went to bed in the daytime. They could hardly wake him up later. When he finally got up his left eye was wonky, I guess is how you UK folks might say it. It was not looking straight when the other was. They were doing tests and noting was figured out yet when he was then in a great deal of pain in his left side and went to the emergency room. I'll cut through the other crap and get to the point, he has terminal cancer. The more they look, the more they find. They don't know how he has handled the pain and also since it is in his spine too, they are shocked he still walks. The eye thing, a tumor behind his eye. Pancreas, liver, spleen bones, brain, spine, colon... I think you get the severity of it. We had a benefit for him March 2nd, Saturday, in the small town he lives in. Their population is about 1800, mostly farm people and a lot of kids, we know they aren't rolling in money. We had 1300 meals sold at the benefit. We had about 200 items donated for a silent auction and a ton of homemade baked goodies to sell and everything was bought. A very overwhelming thing to see. I had a friend 2500 miles away I have never met in person (went to school with her dad and mom) and she alone donated two $900.00 USD web page packages to the auction. People like her and more donating. My two nephew's who are 31 and 33, two of their best mates that are brothers paid for a charter fishing boat to take just them and their dad (my brother) out for a day of fishing yesterday.
I need to get another system going before I put this one on-line folding 24/7 (if it doesn't put my electric bill through the roof). I'm on it all the time now since I can't work, can't be much worse. My dad died at 44, 42 years ago come May from terminal cancer when I was just 16 the same month, it was a month before my sister's wedding, both his parents died of cancer before I was born. My bro-in-law has Leukemia from fighting in Vietnam...Agent Orange. They said he'd last maybe 10 years if he was lucky, been 15 now. The government pays him, a whole hell of a lot that does when they have fucked your life up.
I don't know when, but I have to do it, start folding. I appreciate what you all are doing.
Just had to let this out, hard to here at home since we are all going through it.
