My father died Thursday August 20th at 9:05pm of respiratory failure.

My maternal grandfather died the night before last. Of all my grandparents, he was the one I knew least well. Until recently, I hadn't seen him in about seven years, sometime prior to going to university I think. I'm not sure what he died of, other than that it was probably connected to his jaw cancer, which was making it increasingly difficult ( Read more... )

The Glass Heart
By Jack Liberty [2nd Draft]

To know of the heart to crave the heart. This is the curse on our unhappy fraternity. It is strange that such a symbol of purity and release should have given rise to such a terrible history of murder, theft and betrayal ( Read more... )

For a while, the radio and chemo worked. On Thursday, a routine chest X-ray revealed that the cancer is back. Yesterday, my mother told me that based on an unofficial estimate my father has perhaps six weeks before he is dead. The most likely cause will be suffocation, since his lungs are bleeding and slowly filling with blood. Chemo may buy him ( Read more... )

I went on a vacation to America ( Read more... )

John: Thank God we don't have to go to church on Christmas anymore

Mother: Why is that?

John: Because I'm an atheist and have been for over a decade.

Mother: Well, how do you think you were created then?

John: Er... I thought through the usual way?

A thought prior to my upcoming birthday ( Read more... )

We are selling my childhood home and moving into the city proper so that the ambulances servicing us will be from Princess Margaret or Toronto General Hospital. My father has a stage 3 malignant tumour in his lungs that has metastasised and spread to his lymph nodes, combined with multiple clots in his lungs that continue to form despite the blood ( Read more... )

I suspect my father is going to die. He has malignant lung cancer, multiple blood clots in his lungs, and pneumonia. Doctors discovered the lung cancer approximately 1 mo. ago after he went in for an examination about long-lasting cold-like symptoms. The day before yesterday, he went in for a biopsy and had to be resuscitated after being given ( Read more... )

I just found these: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. They're quiet clever little parodies of those WW2 documentaries you get on the History Channel all the time, except now used to hawk video games.