Last Wednesday my wife received a call that her Mother had had a heart attack. I put my wife on a plane to Sacramento the next day and she will be home next Friday if everything goes well. Her mother is now home from the hospital and driving everybody nuts. (Yeah Mom!!)
Friday morning, after dropping my Granddaughter off at school, I heard that there was a search in progress for a 96 year old man missing since Wednesday evening about 5 PM, I called my neighbor, a game warden, and found out he was headed over to the area to join the search. He picked me up ten minutes later. We searced until 4:40 PM and the team we were on located the man, DRT, drowning is listed as the official cause of death. I tracked up and down stream from where we located him and found no evidence of anything to prove otherwise and must accept that at least for now. Butch and others on here know the frustration and agony of a SAR (rescue) turning into a SAR (Recovery) and it is an experience that I thought I had left behind me when I retired.
I have taken my, soon to be, 90 year old neighbor to the emergency room twice in the past three weeks and twice to his doctor, this morning at 4:30 he showed up at my neighbors (the same game warden) door to be taken to the emergency room again. He has pneumonia and is having some problems coping with it. Tomorrow, I will pick him up from the hospital and bring him home if all is well.
On Sunday or Monday, I can't remember which anymore, I found out that my brother had taken one of his sons to a hospital in Milwaukee due to his having serious problems breathing. Matt, has been battling a form of MS for most of his young life. Today I was told that he died yesterday at the ripe old age of 18.
To top off the whole thing, there is a little dog somebody dropped off a couple of miles from the house. It has mange, it is starving and nobody is willing to help it. Tomorrow I will put it down to put it out of its misery and I hate to do that but sometimes there is just no other option. I have four dogs and two cats of my own plus a little dog we are taking care of for a friend so bringing it here is not in the cards. I should have done this two days ago but couldn't bring myself to do it. There has been too much death and mayhem lately and this will be hard.
I really needed a place to vent all of this tonight and y'all are pretty close to family. Thanks.
Hey, sorry to hear that Coastie. Can't say really much besides I hear ya. I'll pray for you though and your family. Hang in there. Times like this will teach us something if we let it believe it or not.
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Coastie, I am so sorry to hear about all this bad stuff happening around you. Sometimes it seems like everything happens at once. I will keep you and your family in my prayers.
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Wow, Coastie, you really put my week into perspective. I'm sorry you're experiencing all of this suddenly. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.
Costie I am sorry for all that you and yours have been through. I will say a prayer for your brother and his family...loosing a 18 year old son has to be rough.
Mr-Pirk
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hang in there coastie, we are thinking about you. i am just glad there are still people like you around to help shoulder the burdens of others. thanks for being that type of person.
Coastie,
Its tough doing all the things that we are supposed to do,.. and then having nothing much go right for us while we're just trying to do the right thing. Tough being a dad, a grandad, a husband, a father, an uncle a son-in-law, a good friend and a good man....all at once.....
How do you do it?? Cause you are definitely doing it. God bless you and yours.
When I think i'm having a bad stretch I always ask myself "Is anybody sick?" and "Is anybody dead?" ... and if the answer is "NO" to both, i know everthing is the small stuff. You and your family and friends are in my prayers.
Coastie you and yours will be in my prayers, as others have said, the description of your last week really puts things into perspective for us when we whine and moan about our problems. Hang in there Coastie, God will bless you for your heart because you obviously have a big one.
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Ever had on of "Those Weeks" ?
