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Blinky's Funeral
Aingon Atelia wrote:
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> > Aingon Atelia > wrote in news:iTmvl.21337
> > :
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> >
> >>
> >> After the cemetery, the online friends and I went to celebrate Blinky's
> >> life over beer, pizza and darts.
> >
> >
> > 3 things that are magically destined to be together forever!!
> >
> >
> >> He did love to shoot darts, and was
> >> pretty good at it most days. I believe he would have approved.
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> >
> > I'm sure he would have. It would have hinged on what pizza though :-)
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> I don't remember him ever meeting a pizza he didn't like.
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> > I'd never have thought of dart boards at my wake, so thanks for the idea.
> >
> > The SO and I are dart throwers from way-back :-)
>
> Most people just stay near the toe line. 
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> >
> >>
> >> Bye, you big friggin' doof. I miss you a hundred times a day.
> >
> >
> > You've done him proud with your posts, keeping the rest of us updated.
> >
> > You are the epitome of a best friend.
> >
> > Blinky was very lucky.
>
> Thank you.
>
> This has been a tough quarter for me. In mid-December my mother was
> diagnosed with leukemia. Being too weak for aggressive chemo, she was
> put on a maintenance treatment. She was already transfusion dependent
> from other bone marrow issues brought on by chemo for breast cancer 10
> years ago.
>
> On Feb 27th, the night before Blinky's memorial, I was finalizing the
> eulogy when my sister called, saying that my mother had fallen and hit
> her head badly enough to be hospitalized. She had a huge subdural
> hematoma, and she was too frail for them to operate on. She was
> paralyzed on her right side, and was declining. As there was no
> prospect for her to not be dependent on machines to keep her alive, with
> minimal quality of life, my sisters and I had to decide to observe what
> we knew to be her wishes and stop all of her treatments and let the
> leukemia take her. We brought her home on March 4th, and she died
> peacefully in her sleep early on the morning of the 6th. Her funeral
> was yesterday, her interment today.
::sorrow::
> Helluva couple of months. I've also been made Blinky's daughter's
> agent, so that the apartment can get cleared out. The coroner unsealed
> it on the 10th, and I've been given until the 24th to get it emptied.
> Basically that means finding room for a 1 bedroom apartment inside my
> small 3 bedroom house, until everything can be gone through.
>
> And the hits just keep on coming - When I got home from my mom's
> interment today, my next door neighbor's house was packed with people.
> Turns out *he'd* died a couple of days ago from a massive coronary and
> multiple organ failure.
>
> It may not be safe to be around me.
>
> AA/MZ
Au contraire.
Hang in there.
Bill
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