I saw the 217 area code on my caller id and my heart sank. Gary passed away late last night (1:30) in his sleep. His brother said it was peaceful and that, at the time, he was not in any pain. I'm still reconciling this. I saw him just 4 weeks ago and was told he had 3-6 months, so I was shocked when I found how quickly things had deteriorated ( Read more... )

*Nextel chirp* "Craig, is it going to be alright if I take tomorrow, I need to see someone in the hospital ( Read more... )

My kitchen is down to scraps, so I had to go out and go grocery shopping. It was a real struggle to hold myself together in the store. I tried to drown out the outside world with my iPod, but none of my music feels good at the moment. Every song is either full of the wrong emotions or full of the emotions that I don't need to have blasted into ( Read more... )

Things have quickly deteriorated. They've stopped treating him and are now only acting for his comfort, which basically means morphine every two hours until it's all over. I know I'll go up there then, but I'm trying to decide if I'm going to go up this week... Do I want to go be there for him or his family or for me or do I not want to go until ( Read more... )

skywalkerchick posted about her own situation and my quick response became sorta the post I've been meaning to write about my friend. I visited him Thursday and got the word direct form him. It's not good news, but I feel a little bit of comfort I couldn't have before. I mean, when I first got wind of the situation, I didn't know if he'd be around by the end ( Read more... )

I can't really handle the specifics right now, but the friend who has been fighting cancer sent an e-mail out today with the latest medical update. The contents of which weren't exactly uplifting. But at the end of it, he announced he's looking for someone to adopt his cats. That pretty well did it for me. How the fuck did this happen? If I ( Read more... )