Wrenches

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon

This is a hard time of year for Lone Wolf's family. Five years ago tomorrow, his uncle John died. It was a sudden and awful death that was devastating for Grandma, Lone Wolf and I, who were there, and a major blow to my mother-in-law and the rest of the family. Uncle John was extremely close to Uncle George, aka "Stubborn". After their father died, Uncle George stepped in as a father figure for John and my mother-in-law. Aunt Bane practically raised Lone Wolf, and while he wasn't very close to George, he has always been there for Bane.
Last Friday night, uncle George went into the hospital. He had a gall bladder infection. They did one surgery to remove some of the fluid that was filling his abdomen, but couldn't get everything. A second surgery became out of the question when he came down with pneumonia and the doctor's decided that his heart was too weak to withstand another surgery. They were doing everything they could to get him strong enough for another surgery, but he wanted to go home. It was finally decided on Thursday that he would go into a nursing home, since aunt Bane could not care for him at home and their kids all work full time and could not give him the 24 hour care he would need. They planned to move him to the home on Friday.
However, on Friday morning at about 5am, his heart gave out and he passed away peacefully in his sleep.
Grandma has gone to stay with aunt Bane until tomorrow, and then I'll be bringing them both here to stay until after the funeral on Wednesday.

My blog may be a little quiet over the next few days until the funeral, my birthday, Yule, and Christmas have passed.

And in case you've noticed, I somehow lost my blog lists, so I'm going to be rebuilding them.