Okay, I know I haven’t written in a few days here’s the scoop: The sadness I mentioned before has happened. Mr Man’s father has died. We’ve been going up daily (an hour trip one way) since Saturday.

He’s been sick for sometime with kidney and liver ailements due to a inept doctor who didn’t read page two of his test results for two years and Baycol (and Ohio’s weak malpractice laws). He had been on various forms of dialysis for over five years and finally when his tissues were breaking down, he hurt more after dialysis than before and was in near constant pain, liver was failing, heart problems - he decided enough was enough.

He had seen far too many in the dialysis center get to this stage he was now at. Due to his tissues breaking down where they did his dialysis he would have to take the final stwp - get a jugular port instead. He knew it wouldn’t do anything but give him a few weeks more. He knew it would mean more pain and was futile to even try it. So he didn’t.

Last Monday he notified his doctors he was done and stopped dialysis. He entered the hospice care system the next day and he died around 3pm in his home yesterday. He’d missed four dialysis treatments. He went very peacefully I’m told. Mr Man’s mom was there alone with him (My brother in-law had *just* left to fill a new Rx) so she got to tell him all the stuff she needed to say.

Mr Man is a Junior. And he’s every bit his Dad’s son. Seeing him wither away , especially over the last six months, has killed us all a little inside. All three sons are chewed up, naturally but at the same time, we’re rather relieved. It’s over. We don’t have to look at him and wonder ho wmuch pain he was hiding.

My mother in law is hovering like a hummingbird trying to do fourty things at once. When her wings give out she’s gonna crash hard. She’s been remarkably good (better than us) with no weeping spells so far, but that fine thread holding her together is fraying.

The funeral is Sunday. So I don’t know how much more I’ll have until then. Just haven’t felt liek scouting crap for you guys. I just pull the laptop with me and play popcap.com games or the like.

Despite the bad news yesterday there is, I guess, good news. I have a job.

It’s temporary (for now), but is full time for Proctor and Gamble here in Cinci. Now It’s webdesign, and the ad was basically asking for me by name, so that’s nice - but what for I have no idea as I’m supposed to be going to a chemical research lab. This is the last you’ll prolly hear of this as I have a non-disclosure doohickey, and I never blog about work or jobs anyway (no matter how mcuh I might want to), becasue I’m WAY too smart for that. But, If I turn any cool colors, sprout an extra arm, or see an alien aircraft I’ll be sure to tell you all, but past that nada.

I’m kinda fascinated personally at this point what I might be doing, but it doesn’t look like I’ll be starting till the 10th now so I have 2 weeks to get back on a normal human schedule and get all my Tivo watched up.

So that’s the news, such as it is. Still no IKEA, I’ve been watching.