It's a rough time of year, from now through mid-December. Dad didn't want a cake or anything for his last birthday. I think I recall Mom making one anyway. It was such an unsettled time because he was sick and getting sicker, his doctor at the VA was not following up, and we didn't know what was wrong. We thought the fatigue and weight loss might have been due to his thyroid. Mom kept telling him to go to a private doctor, but he wouldn't. I took him to the VA ER a week or so later. They admitted him, and we learned that it was pancreatic cancer and he had probably six months. He wound up with six weeks.
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Date: 2010-10-21 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 01:23 am (UTC)Damned disease.
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Date: 2010-10-21 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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