stories

I have a few stories to tell because they are on my mind. The first is that I was instant messaging my son in law and we were talking about it being the end and how hard this was and maybe it would be better to die suddenly.

Well, Phil and I think that we got a pretty good deal here. With the disease that he has he was going to have this last bad month no matter what. The good deal part is that we had two pretty good years to remember when looking back at the past bad month. Had he died in a couple months as many people with pancreatic cancer do we would not have had the past two years to make extra special memories with our family and friends.

He also had the opportunity to have so many people tell him what he meant to them before he died. Those words were just amazing to both him and me. I have kept all the emails and I think that sometime in the future they will be comforting to read. Maybe, I will read them with my children and grandchildren.

One other story just lets you know that Phil was Phil until the end.

When the grandchildren were little Phil would always say that babies including them come from Sears because "Sears has everything" as their ads use to say. The kids made a joke out of it as they got older and it has been a common line in our family.

Two days ago when Phil was asking for the urinal, I asked him when he does not eat or drink "where do you get all this urine from?" He answered "Sears". I just closed my eyes and shook my head.

I hope you appreciate my stories. Thank you all for all you have done to make our lives what it is today. You are all special people.