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Date Posted: 16:06:47 02/14/07 Wed
Author: Tim, Potter, Radar & Cleo
Author Host/IP: c-24-7-135-38.hsd1.ca.comcast.net / 24.7.135.38
Subject: Just a quick hello to say thanks :-)

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to express my thanks for being here for me, when I couldn't. It's been a tough year all around for me and the kids. While Mom was at my home, Dennis took Potter and Miss Cleo up to the Oregon House so I could put Mom in my room. I kept my goofy boy with me, cuz he needs his Dad and I needed to keep one of them with me for some sense of normality. So glad I did. He even got to sleep on my bed for that week and a half.:-)

The day that Mom left us, Radar was acting very odd...walking around her hospital bed, anxious, sitting in to the side of the bed, turning his head, this way and that, watching her. After about an hour later he was back to normal. I believe it now when they say our canine friends have an extra sense about this type of event. The Hospice nurse and the 24hr caregive I had staying with us, confirmed that it is very common.

I was with her when she passed over and it was all very peaceful ... an easy transition for her ... and easy for me.

They say that no matter what the relationship with our parents, we will miss them when they are gone and I will. My sister and I had coffee the otehr day together and shared how odd to feel orphaned in our late fifties. And as another who wrote me, it's a definitely a new life experience when we lose 'the bookends of our life'. How true.

I'm gradually getting use to the void. The family has been losing her over a long period, so it's not so much the grief as just trying to fill that space left each day and night. It seems like I've been running around making sure her care was the best, keeping the phone by my bedside each nite waiting for those emergency calls that would always come ... for so long. It will take a while to get back to what life was like before. Only I'm older than I was when this started....like 25 yrs older since having to take on the responsiblilty for her after my Dad passed on.

Just doing not much of anything, except trying to get my puter tuned up ... and veg'n. The boys are doing great. Cleo as a 'boxer corneal ulcer' right now, but she's doing ok with the current therapy so far.

Gary, I'm so sorry to hear of Zack's problems. Please provide an update if you can.

Luv ya,

Tim, Potter, Radar & Miss Cleo

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