[tcb] Re: And life goes quietly on...
- From: "mprime" <mprime6807@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:30:56 -0500
Add my prayers, as well.
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Subject: [tcb] Re: And life goes quietly on...
Gerald my prayers are wth you.
--- "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gvl2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
>
>
Paul Smith
www.23window.com/thezone
H.B.B
T.C.B.
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