A wonderful friend passed away lat night! So very sad. Cancer has taken another person from my life! Admittedly it does make me angry! So much should have been done and wasn't!!! It has been a year of such high hopes only to discover that the medical system which is suppose to be number one isn't! The numbers look good until you realize that patients that don't fit the bill are put off and treatments only available in other countries can only mentioned if asked about. Kind of pointless when you are going to a doctor as your expert! It is pretty hard to loos a friend that is younger than you by quite a few years!!! Not really the way things are suppose to go! Sadder still since he recently lost his father to cancer as well! Death isn't fair but no one should have to go though what so many do!
I remember when my grandmother called at midnight asking for help. Hers was the first cancer death though my grandfather had died of the horrible Parkinson disease well before she did. I didn't forgive my father for moving away for years after my grandfather died! I remember Carrie my fathers secretary (my favorite!) who was married and died shortly after of cancer. My bridesmaid Angie whose mother and sister had the same name as mine did, and show middle name was the same as mine. She died from skin cancer. My aunt who died from breast cancer. And so the list goes on!!!
This is a night of remembrance for me! We spent so many Fridays with Jim and other friends! So many movies, I don't know that I can bring myself to go to one anymore! I remember when Jim was so depressed of late and figuring he needed cheering up I suggested we should go to Bridesmaids. Not something I would normally see but I hoped it would cheer him up! It was wonderful!!! I remember once he game me a ride home when my husband couldn't. His car was stacked up with tons of things which he moved to the back seat. As we drove home everything fell on the floor at the stop sign. His first remark was to say he hated gravity! Such a funny guy!!! We always thought Jim would be a famous writer or photographer or both, but he didn't have enough time! There was the time someone stole his journals (or idea books as he called them!) So very sad!!! I don't know that he ever rewrote them all. He did rewrite his take on plaid!!! He loved plaid!!! He was an old fashioned man that loved swing dancing and his Russian WW2 bike! Always hoping to find the love of his life but never quite managing it! I though he had more time! Very old fashioned and yet so goofy!!! He and his friends ran the local Hibbing Paper one year when the owner was sent to jail! He sailed the high seas on the Rose from Master and commander. He once dreamed of quitting one of his jobs by coming in to work in a suit of armor and a cape and he did own a cape. He found a job he loved and stuck with it as long as he could after he was sick! He was a lovely man for whom I always wished the best! RIP Jim!!!
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