R.I.P Pa
If I'm not around here as much for a little while, this is why...
My grandpa died yesterday. He was 90 years old. He was struck by a very aggressive cancer behind the eye not long before he made it to the big 9-0. (he was in hospital during his birthday party late last month) :(
Radiation therapy couldn't save him, in fact it couldn't even give him a few more years. Yes, he was 90, but he was still driving, living in his own home but he was alone because both his wives passed away (when his first wife died he ended up marrying her sister!) etc, so they did try to hold back the cancer but it kept growing until it disfigured half of his face, made him blind etc... horrible, horrible stuff.
Cancer is such a terrible thing, no matter what age it hits a person. Cancer really sucks big-time. Peope say, oh but he had such a great, long life... well, yes, but he would've wanted to die of old age in his sleep, not suffering for months having it eat away his eye and misshape his nose and face, making him unable to eat and still not getting enough relief even once they put a morphine pump in in his last few days. That is just an awful way for anyone to have to go.
Anyway, I have to speak and do a reading at his funeral on Monday...
It won't be your 'average' 80-to-100-people-or-so funeral as he was a prominent doctor & surgeon and had an OAM (Order Of Australia) so it'll be in front of at least 400 to 500 people, who won't all fit in the one church so there will be a video-link on a big screen in the hall nearby as well. That's why I'm kinda freaking out! lol XD... I hope I won't break down and cry. I think I'll be okay though.
But hey, kinda makes ya think though doesn't it... I think less than 10 people would probably show up at my funeral! XD heh.
So... if I haven't been really keeping up with replying to comments etc, around here lately, that is why. I hope you understand, I'm not meaning to ignore anyone on purpose.