Just got a shitty phone call from a childhood friends wife. Rick and I grew up together in Mi. and Came to Ca, together in 1980. We were even in the same trade. About 20 years ago he got MS and now he is in the final stages of it. Wife said he is being put into Hospice and has stopped eating and drinking, so it won't be long. He is back in Mi. now not far from where we grew up.