Al continues to improve.  He will be moving to a rehab facility which also housed his radiation treatment for the skin cancer, mycosis fungicides (sp???) which a rare cancer which goes inward if not checked. He has been undergoing radiation for three years and it is at least halted in its tracks, thank God!  He appears to have no real deficits from his brain surgery to relieve the blood clots and fresh bleeding.  However, he does need rehab for balance and his continued improvement.  He, of course, wants to come home; I don’t want him home until I know he can function well at home.  One fall and it could be disaster.  He of course is angry with me, but those who know me know that  I can hold my ground with sympathy not my strong suit when it comes to his doing what he needs to do to get well!  Anyone who knows us thinks we are the “Bickersons.”  A friend liked to say about her marriage that she and her husband fought for recreation. Al and I never fight, but my “cave man” husband argues with me all the time especially when I am after him about his health. Of, course, I am never at fault!!!  I  would love to be sweet, loving, and docile but my husband is of the old school and does not respond well to sweetness and lightness.  He says he married me for my “moxie” but which has driven him crazy all these years!  My excuse is that I am from Brooklyn with a New York attitude; my midwestern husband has never like New Yorkers but the man married me anyway! 

I have been visiting my friend Bobbi Brady, a Doberman breeder and fellow judge, as she has been in the same hospital as Al.  An urinary tract infection that she has been fighting for a month turned into a malignant tumor on her bladder which had spread to her longs.  Needless to say, this was not caught until too late. She died yesterday of heart failure due to reduced capacity of the lungs. We are all devastated as Bobbi was one of the finest people I have never known. She leaves a wonderful family who love her deeply.  I made it to Hospice where she had just been moved only a couple of minutes after she passed. The first words her husband said to me was “You have lost your partner.”  Although I have known Bobbi for forty years, it wasn’t until the last few years that we teamed up to fight anti dog and breeding legislation in Ohio. For three years we haunted the the Statehouse and were instrumental, we would like to believe, in helping defeat HB 446.  We often joked that we would be blue haired old ladies tottering around the Statehouse perpetually lost as as long as we have haunted the Statehouse, we got lost every time.  I loved her and will really miss her.

Thanks to all who have continued to pray for us; I will answer all the emails and calls when I can.  My blog is my way to keep my friends in the loop. Please say a prayer for the soul of my Bobbi. I am sure God has welcomed her with open arms as she was such a very good person.

Until next time.  Meredith

Comments are closed.