Good Bye

Rick passed away late Monday night.

A memorial service will be held on Friday April 17th at 5.30pm at "Christ The King" Lutheran Church, 499 Plaza Drive Vestal NY

An additional memorial service will be held at Assumption Church 812 North Salina St., Syracuse, NY on Monday April 27th at 5.30pm followed by a reception.

Monday April 13, 2009

Reposting pictures to keep them on an upper page

Easter--April 12, 2009

HAPPY EASTER--Now that I've made it to Easter, let's shoot for Memorial Day as the next target. My brother-in-law got me approved for SSI benefits which don't start for a month

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Nancy and Tina visited today along with Sh***. Nancy brought hotdogs from Heid's and Sh*** brought ham and scallopped potatoes--what a feast! (for my relatives).

Good Friday--April 10, 2009

Didn't do much again today.

Tina and Nancy called to say HI!

Do*** stopped by to say goodbye and Tom might have stopped by in the morning

Thursday April 9, 2009

Don't panic--I took a day off blogging yesterday!

Wednesday I had a visit from JP and his wife and Chris came back down with "High Plains Drifter" which we watched for 40 mins until I dozed off.

Thursday was mostly spent sleeping as my morphine drip was increased to reduce the hourly "booster" shots to relieve the breakthrough pain.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Peaceful night last night. Tina visited along with her two daughters in the morning, and Mark and his wife visited in the afternoon.

Monday April 6, 2009

Wow--it's Monday. I lasted through the weekend!

Woke up at 6AM and drank 2 glasses of water and snaafed (sp) down an orange popsicle. Had a lot of energy and spoke with my sister for almost 10 mins--is this the surge they keep talking about?

Jim visited (not sure which one!)in the afternoon

Tried out some fancy air-bed that was really uncomfortable--glad to get back in my old low-tech bed--exhausted!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

This party's getting kinda old!.

Brothers returned along with Connie and Jane. Gary came down too. Spent most of the day sleeping except for a couple of hours in the afternoon.

Brother-in-law contacted two Jims and a David (old friends) for possible visits tomorrow.

Saturday April 4, 2009

Saturday brings little change and my two brothers bearing gifts of Heid's hotdogs.

Kim and Peter visited in the evening and told a lot of old family stories.

Pictures are Here!

Still here! For better or worse here are a few pictures

Thursday April 2nd, 2009

Things still the same at my end--daughter visited this afternoon. Gary, an old friend, called my brother-in-law and might visit soon.

You know it's bad when visiting relatives bring pictures of when you were younger--I'll post these tomorrow--judge for yourself!

Weds April 1st

Can't believe I'm still kicking. Back on continuous morphine 3mg/hr to control the pain.

Two friends from OPA dropped by--kids coming later--hope they're in time.

BP 160/98 HR 128