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Dave, it was a beautiful day today. It was roughly 80 F and sunny at your house. Even I got outside. Seems to me you have a beautiful new riding area to play with your horses. Lots of land around you to ride your tractors on while doing something productive, or destructive.
DaveNay
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Money is tight
Business is slow
One of our cats was killed by a pit bull this afternoon
Sounds like 3 strikes and that is certainly enough to get someone down. But I learned a lesson about a 15 years ago. Someone always has it worse.
It was about 15 years ago that my mom and dad were both sick and dying. Dad was taken to the local hospital in Munster, but mom was suffering from cancer in her brain and the local hospital couldn't treat her so we took her up to University of Chicago. We spent every day going from the hospital in Indiana to the hospital in Chicago. Then the day that my dad died we had to go tell mom. Dad died in the morning. Other than mom, the closest members of the family were with him. But it was up to my wife and I to tell mom.
We drove up to the University of Chicago and started to talk to mom but the nurses came in to do some procedures so we ended up in the waiting room. A woman, probably in her mid-50s came up to us to talk. She appeared to be a cancer patient and we sat and talked. Turned out she was visiting her daughter on the floor below, her daughter, about our age, was gravely ill. The woman had also just lost her husband in a car accident. She was indeed a cancer patient, lost her hair due to chemo, and decided to come up to the cancer ward to visit some of the nurses who had cared for her on her last stay. We sat and listened to her stories and realized that we had it so lucky compared to her, yet she still had a great attitude about life. Despite the death of my father earlier that day, we realized he had lived a wonderful and generally healthy life. He provided well for my mom, traveled, lived the American dream.
When we got back into see mom and tell her about dad we had a renewed spirit. There was no silver lining. The day was still terrible by most any standards. The week that followed was not any better. We had to get mom out of the hospital to attend the wake, then return her to Chicago to the hospital in the evening for treatments. Then repeat the event to take her to the funeral. Still, as bad as it was, somehow we felt pretty lucky. That woman taught us a lesson that I still carry with me on my dark days. Despite her problems, which made mine seem trivial, she had a great attitude. I strive for that and hope you can take something positive away from this story.
It was about 15 years ago that my mom and dad were both sick and dying. Dad was taken to the local hospital in Munster, but mom was suffering from cancer in her brain and the local hospital couldn't treat her so we took her up to University of Chicago. We spent every day going from the hospital in Indiana to the hospital in Chicago. Then the day that my dad died we had to go tell mom. Dad died in the morning. Other than mom, the closest members of the family were with him. But it was up to my wife and I to tell mom.
We drove up to the University of Chicago and started to talk to mom but the nurses came in to do some procedures so we ended up in the waiting room. A woman, probably in her mid-50s came up to us to talk. She appeared to be a cancer patient and we sat and talked. Turned out she was visiting her daughter on the floor below, her daughter, about our age, was gravely ill. The woman had also just lost her husband in a car accident. She was indeed a cancer patient, lost her hair due to chemo, and decided to come up to the cancer ward to visit some of the nurses who had cared for her on her last stay. We sat and listened to her stories and realized that we had it so lucky compared to her, yet she still had a great attitude about life. Despite the death of my father earlier that day, we realized he had lived a wonderful and generally healthy life. He provided well for my mom, traveled, lived the American dream.
When we got back into see mom and tell her about dad we had a renewed spirit. There was no silver lining. The day was still terrible by most any standards. The week that followed was not any better. We had to get mom out of the hospital to attend the wake, then return her to Chicago to the hospital in the evening for treatments. Then repeat the event to take her to the funeral. Still, as bad as it was, somehow we felt pretty lucky. That woman taught us a lesson that I still carry with me on my dark days. Despite her problems, which made mine seem trivial, she had a great attitude. I strive for that and hope you can take something positive away from this story.
BoneheadNW
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Great story Bob. People like that woman you met are the true heros of society.
Bonehead
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