I’m not sure that, I am important enough for anyone to notice but, I have not posted for several months. I have been taking care of my terminally ill wife since she started hospice in December. She passed away this past Sunday (March 2).
i have not smoked a pipe during these months, when I most desperately needed to, because she was on oxygen. Today was the first day that, I have availed myself of that pleasure.
I will spare you all of the most grisly details (you can be confident there were some). She fell ill in August at our second home in Russia. We thought it was another bout of COVID because, she had an unshakable cough. She had just begun a holiday in Riga prior to her usual return around Halloween. I got a call from her, asking me to fly her home immediately because she was very weak and ill. I got her to m/y doctor the day after her return and that is when the diagnosis (later supported by various scans) became obvious She had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that had spread ( by the time she had passed, practically everywhere).
I am, of course, devastated. All of my (our) plans for the future are obliterated. As, I had mentioned prior in the Forums, I was planning on retiring about now and we were going to start a new adventure in Riga, Latvia. Well, just when everything was going so right; everything went so wrong.
This is starting to sound like a bid for sympathy. I can assure you that, it is not. I just wanted to explain why I’m not currently selling off any tobacco and explain my disappearance. I hope to be more active in the coming months. Be well, my friends.
i have not smoked a pipe during these months, when I most desperately needed to, because she was on oxygen. Today was the first day that, I have availed myself of that pleasure.
I will spare you all of the most grisly details (you can be confident there were some). She fell ill in August at our second home in Russia. We thought it was another bout of COVID because, she had an unshakable cough. She had just begun a holiday in Riga prior to her usual return around Halloween. I got a call from her, asking me to fly her home immediately because she was very weak and ill. I got her to m/y doctor the day after her return and that is when the diagnosis (later supported by various scans) became obvious She had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that had spread ( by the time she had passed, practically everywhere).
I am, of course, devastated. All of my (our) plans for the future are obliterated. As, I had mentioned prior in the Forums, I was planning on retiring about now and we were going to start a new adventure in Riga, Latvia. Well, just when everything was going so right; everything went so wrong.
This is starting to sound like a bid for sympathy. I can assure you that, it is not. I just wanted to explain why I’m not currently selling off any tobacco and explain my disappearance. I hope to be more active in the coming months. Be well, my friends.
