January 13, 2011
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The Daily News
1 Whew.
2 Dad's home!
3 Such a wid time.
4 "wid". I'm inventing a word. Sound it out. It's wid.
5 Is there any other way to voice it?
6 Dad was released from the hospital yesterday, and I was completely giddy.
7 Like, I get the whole thing of kidney failure, cancer, diabetes, and all the rest, but there he was!
8 Home!
9 How important is that?
10 In the vernacular of the twenty-first century, "Uber important".
11 He was washed out from the entire ordeal, but HOME ,<YES!> with an entire new lease on life.
12 Life.
13 Ultimately, it is filled with wonder and mystery!
14 Despite all, it truly is.
15 YOU know this, and certainly I know this.
16 My Mom and Dad taught me that.
17 So despite all, Iive life.
18 And yes, love life.
19 I'm exhausted.
20 Aren't we all?
21 AnywayZ I'd like to thank everyone who wrote me, thought of my Dad, and through prayers and thoughts, helped bring him home.
22 It's sort of funny, because as important as hospitals are, there is something so calming about being home, especially in the home in which I grew up.
23 As soon as Dad and my sister Gayle arrived, everything became perfect. They told me that they had spent the morning watching Bonanza, a wonderful retro-teevee drama with ties to the old west.
24 So Dad turned his television channel to Bonanza. I was instantly hooked. The show holds up remarkably well and was clearly ahead of its time. Excellent acting, borderline over-acting à la William Shatz, but just short of overdoing. The setting for the show was Virginia City, but the Cartwright family lived on a ranch in Tahoe, the Ponderosa, which makes it a fun show!
25 So we didn't talk too much about doctors and nurses and stuff, because Dad looked like he had enough of that for the past six days. We relaxed and enjoyed this grand old show.
26 It felt normal, which to me, is underrated. Normal, that is. In college, I lived on Normal Street. True.
27 People spend heroic hours of their lives searching for fun and excitement, when to me, calmly enjoying good conversations and sweet times with cool people is all we really need.
28 That becomes more and more important as we travel through time.
29 Anyway, it was a good day, and while we have lots more to think about and consider, it was nice just to sit and watch teevee with my Dad. The second he came in a hummingbird appeared at the window.
30 Before Mom passed away, she talked of how she liked hummingbirds, because she was bedridden, and they would always come visit her window. The image is right out of Mary Poppins.
31 Mom was an artist and could sketch beautifully. It always amazed me. When she passed, we found a wonderful sketch of a hummingbird, along with a small notebook in which she kept hundreds of quotations.
32 I'll try to round up both to share. Not quite prepared for that right this sec.
33 Not much news, just normal stuff, or as normal as one can be given the circumstances.
34 Thanks again to everyone who left us a thought or message, or for all of those who sent prayers and thoughts. I didn't have to see them; I could feel so much love in my heart it is indescribable. So much love.
35 I told Dad about all of that. He smiled. He smiles a lot, but he was a bit exhausted yesterday.
36 So that's the news.
37 So much love.
38 And Bonanza.
38 Peace.
~H~
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