[tcb] Re: And life goes quietly on...
- From: Dan Martin <danandkatrinamartin@xxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:55:05 -0500
We did have the pleasure of camping with both of your parents.
We will miss them both, sorry to hear of your loss.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.
On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:
> Those of you who attended the First Annual Texas VW Classic in
> March 2004
> may remember that I had my Mom and Dad along. I don't have any
> pictures of
> them from the show so any of you whop took pictures let me know
> where to
> look and see if I can find some.
>
> Those who were at "Chiggerfest 2004" (no, that wasn't the official
> name --
> until after it was over) may remember my Dad (though he never got
> more than
> 10 or 20 feet from the bus). Once again, no pictures that I can find.
>
> Those who were at JBB in October 2004 may remember my Mom coming
> with me to
> that. I found a few shots of her in David Letterman's huge
> collection. I
> think there were some in the Potts pictures also but I'm waiting
> for Greg
> to let me know where he moved them to.
>
> http://www.kookymathteacher.com/JBB/LettermanJBB2004/photos/
> DSC08651.JPG
> http://www.kookymathteacher.com/JBB/LettermanJBB2004/photos/
> DSC08665.JPG
> http://www.kookymathteacher.com/JBB/LettermanJBB2004/photos/
> DSC08669.JPG
>
> Mom's been in and out of the hospital since March fighting the
> effects of
> being "cured" of her lung cancer.
>
> On June 1st Dad called me and said he was having more trouble
> breathing
> than usual and thought he may have pneumonia. I took him to the
> emergency
> room and they admitted him straight into ICU and put him on a
> respirator.
>
> On the afternoon of June 2nd my brother called and told me Mom had
> died.
> 700 miles from me with Dad in the hospital. He was sedated most of
> the time
> to let the respirator do it's job so I got other family members to
> stay
> with him and I went to Alabama to help my brother finish up affairs
> there.
> I came back the morning of the 11th.
>
> Monday morning (the 13th) I had the doctors take Dad off the
> respirator at
> his request. It wasn't pneumonia, it was just years of athsma
> treatments
> catching up with him and failing, and he knew he wasn't going to
> get any
> better. He quietly stopped breathing and died just after midnight that
> night/Tuesday morning.
>
> The Rivi still sits in storage with bad bearings and brakes, and
> will a bit
> longer as I get Dad's stuff packed up and moved out of his house.
> Neither
> of them is in pain any longer and life goes quietly on.
>
> Gerald
>
>
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