{"id":21399,"date":"2017-11-04T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=21399"},"modified":"2017-11-04T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:09:47","slug":"saturday-morning-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=21399","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were to have a full house for Thanksgiving, so we started cleaning the dining and living room for company. By “we” I mean Donna, but I’m helping with furniture, moving it around while she tackles different sections of carpet with a shampooer. By “were” I mean Donna’s sister Georgianna and her husband Don have now postponed their visit to Christmas, and our son Gregory has started a new job and may or may not be able drive down with our daughter-in-law Beth and grandson Quentin. We’ll have a clean house and a great feast anyway, even if it’s just us and our daughter Polly … and we don’t have a commitment from her yet.<\/p>\n

So there’s that. So far today I’ve been busy filling bird feeders and backing up blogs. Next comes more of the afore-mentioned furniture moving, then a trip to the dog park with the pups (it’ll be Mr. B’s first visit). Living life at a jet-set pace, that’s us.<\/p>\n

My sister Sue felt bad and short of breath and went to the doctor. Next thing she knew she was in a hospital bed with lung cancer, and then she died. The very same week a Tucson friend, Mike, felt bad and short of breath and next thing he knew he was in a hospital bed with pancreatic cancer, 80 pounds lighter than he’d been a month ago, and now it looks like he’ll die soon too. Donna and I went to visit him Thursday but he was heavily sedated and out of it. They transferred him to hospice yesterday.<\/p>\n

This sucks and I want it to stop. Tell you what, I start to feel bad and short of breath, I’m taking aspirin and hoping for the best.<\/p>\n

I wanted to share a couple of photos with you. That’s the real reason for this post.
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With my sister Sue a few days ago at the hospital in Belleville, Illinois<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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The Woodford kids sharing a moment of badly-needed levity<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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With Sue in happier times<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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With Mike & his girlfriend Liz last spring<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\nMore soon. Thank you for visiting my little blog. Remember to keep a bottle of aspirin handy, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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