And here we are - another 3 years later. Again, major life disruptions have happened since my dad passed in November 2022. In a span of one year my dad, a good family friend, and my husband all passed away. To say 2022 and 2023 were rough is an understatement. But as all who are slapped with the death of a loved one no less multiple in one year, we move forward in whatever way we can. Four months after James died, I adopted a shelter almost old dog at 6/7ish years old, Redford! Yes, after Robert. I kept the name the shelter had given. Just over two years later, he responds to that name most of the time. Small victories. Originally told he was a shar-pei mix, a recent diagnostic test revealed is is much more and the shar-pei isn't even the dominant trai! In order of how much of a breed he is the following: american it bull terrier>chow chow>pug>beagle>shar-pei>german sheperd mix. Thank you Embark for figuring that out! What else has happened? Not much - helped ...
Oh my, I have gotten behind in my writing. Alas, I have a very good reason. Life....so much has happened in the last six months...well kinda sorta... My father passed away in late November from complications suffered after a unfortunate fall. He suffered from late stage Parkinson's so perhaps it was a blessing in disguise. The last year of his life, he was probably giving us unconscious warning signs that all sense of his prior self was gone but we somewhat refused to see it. I am still grieving and I am sure I will for life but I find myself spontaneously crying upon some memory of him almost weekly. We will hold a celebration of life in June ... no idea how well any one of us will handle that. He was an amazing man, father and husband, friend to many. Obit https://www.hillsidefhcares.com/obituary/JohnD-Kirkman My husband had surgery in November to place a PD catheter so he could do dialysis at home. Diagnosed with end stage kidney disease in April 2019, dialysis since Sept 2019 t...