Update on my father's father
Wow...I just talked to my dad; Grampa Tony is still kicking, but he's definitely on the way out. They're moving him to hospice care tonight. My relatives are tough; they thought he'd be dead by now...his prognosis was, essentially, "Twenty-four hours left...maybe..."
The plan is to have a funeral in Florida for his friends in the condo complex--a large part of our family lives in the same Florida condos--and then a few months later to bury his ashes with my grandmother (who died when I was two; I remember her not at all) in New York, where they lived and where my dad grew up. The rest of the family will be there for that.
It's so weird planning this stuff while he's still alive, but I guess you gotta. Even slightly more morbid, my dad told me--and I SWEAR I didn't ask--what I'm getting in the will. Um...money, basically. Not an excessive amount, but, well...more than I've ever had in one place at one time, regardless. The emotions surrounding that are a little odd, cuz it feels wrong to be psyched...and yet...a couple grand coming to me, just *BAM*, all of a sudden; it's hard to feel bad about that. Feel bad about the circumstances, yes, but... Well, I guess it's valid to feel two emotions at once.
Anyway...wow..."rollercoaster ride" kinna describes this, yanno?
The plan is to have a funeral in Florida for his friends in the condo complex--a large part of our family lives in the same Florida condos--and then a few months later to bury his ashes with my grandmother (who died when I was two; I remember her not at all) in New York, where they lived and where my dad grew up. The rest of the family will be there for that.
It's so weird planning this stuff while he's still alive, but I guess you gotta. Even slightly more morbid, my dad told me--and I SWEAR I didn't ask--what I'm getting in the will. Um...money, basically. Not an excessive amount, but, well...more than I've ever had in one place at one time, regardless. The emotions surrounding that are a little odd, cuz it feels wrong to be psyched...and yet...a couple grand coming to me, just *BAM*, all of a sudden; it's hard to feel bad about that. Feel bad about the circumstances, yes, but... Well, I guess it's valid to feel two emotions at once.
Anyway...wow..."rollercoaster ride" kinna describes this, yanno?