Hope all is well with everyone at Pope 4 !!!
My week was long, and yet had fun on Wednesday with a long trip. Went to see a client in West Virginia who is building himself a new building in rural area he owns.
Not doing anything with him now, but will when he gets it up an his equipment running.... The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well, at least in him!
I left there and drove another 100 miles to Huntington to visit with a small client, yet very enjoyable person who is a Gun Dealer as well. Unfortunately, when I got there, he was not.... So then I made the two hour journey back home from there. 500 miles total. Scenery was great. So was the visit.
Got bad news from Doc as well after the CT scan showed and confirmed he has Pancreatic cancer and it is blocking the Bile Ducts. He wants me to take him to see a liver specialist who MIGHT want to insert tubes into him.
I don't think dad will want that and I am going to honor his wishes anyway. He wants to go on and be with mom. I am at peace with that.
Next week should be interesting... Only hard part now is finding some help with nursing to come into dad's house and monitoring him and maybe helping him shower, eat, and give him some stronger pain meds (morphine) when needed. Lot to do there.
On the home front, I dropped my LG Optimus G cell phone on cement. It landed on the back side and it cracked the glass on the back into lots of crack lines. NO, I did not have the case on it at that time. I do now to protect my hands from the glass shards. Still works.
Anyway, just ordered a NEW LG G3 phone for a couple hundred bucks. Much bigger and faster still. This was a top rated phone two years ago. All I need.
Should have it by Wednesday. Then I can transfer my contacts to it and get it set up. I already ordered a protective case by Spigen, which is actually rated higher than Otterbox. Slim and well designed. I hate it when cases interfere with the buttons on the phone or the virtual keyboards when sending a text message.
I am praying that I will make the right decisions for my father, and be able to let him not be alone or become irritable when he does not react or respond how I would like him to. Patience and love.
This is difficult for me because all my life, my father DISLIKED ME and was always mean-spirited and sometimes downright ugly. Mom would say to me that my father just did not like me. Yeah, that it true.
I never knew why. Now I am the one of four that has to do MOST of the work and make the decisions for HIM.
Ironic. Yet a testing of my faith and I will honor my dad as I am his son.
Difficult to do. Taking a toll.
Anyway, I look forward to reading the board and seeing what you all have found out with your great perspectives, insights, and researching. It is a sort of escape for me. I do so much appreciate every one of you contributors.
A Blessed Lord's Day to you all!
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