My Father passed last night. He was 93, born on August 8, 1919
He had been ill for a while now, but until this past February, he was able to live at home with a minimal amount of assistance. Then he fell and was in and out of the hospital and nursing homes for a few months, developing infections, etc., and in May I moved in with him (with all my cats) until October when we moved him into assisted living as he needed more care than I could provide. He had congestive heart failure, multiple myeloma (a blood cancer like leukemia) and Alzheimer’s. At his new home he was pretty good for a couple months, but right after Thanksgiving he started having pain in his back, and with medication we could control it, but he was noticeably getting weaker daily. I believe he decided it was time to go this past Thursday, so he didn’t linger, and I’m grateful the end was peaceful.
The above is a photo of my parents when they were courting, back when you called it that. They were married for 57 years before she passed in 2004. My father had a very good outlook, and he eventually got a girlfriend about 3 years afterwards. He liked going out, dancing and traveling, and he was lucky he found someone to share his time with.
He was a life-long Democrat and union member, WWII veteran, loving father and husband. Whenever he was in the hospital the nurses would comment about how glad they had him as a patient because he was so pleasant and never complained. Below is a photo of my sister and I with him with what must be my first Easter…it was the earliest photo I could find of him with me. The second photo is him on his 90th birthday on our cruise to Alaska.
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My thoughts are with you at this sad time. 
I'm sorry the past couple of weeks have been so rough for you.
Like father, like son!
joeybee12, I'm really sorry to hear of your dad...my deepest sympathies to you.
My Mom lives with us...she's going to be 92 next month. In her case, the brain is really good but the body is crap.
Again I'm sorry to hear about dad but 93 is a great life!
hope you're doing ok. It's hard to lose a close family member.
I'm wondering how the tennis year is going to be with Rafael staging a comeback and Roger winding down. I guess we can just make fun of the younger players now.
