Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:09 PM Monday 8/15/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
My father-in-law died this afternoon.
Condolences to you and all the family.
Thank you.
He'd been fighting cancer for over 2 years. His oncologist gave up on
him 2 months ago. I figured he had 6 weeks at the outside at that
point, but he hung on just a little longer.
I'm going to be busy with things having to do with the burial for the
next few days, so if you need admin help and I don't respond in a
timely manner, that's why. I expect things to settle out to some new
approximation of "normal" sometime after Labor Day. (Yeah, what with
one thing and another, that long.)
I don't have an issue with the length of time. I just wonder how you
can use the term "normal" with a presumably straight face . . .
Maybe more like "new routine". Which is about what you hope for with 3
young children anyway.
We'll be seeing more of my mother-in-law for the next few months. Which
will be somewhat challenging (my mother wasn't the easiest person to
live with for a couple of years after my father died, and did some
things in her grief that she would not have done otherwise), but being
around her grandchildren will be good for her and the grandchildren.
Julia
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