Chuck’s family at Christmas 2004 – Pam, Steve, Chris, Chuck and Hester
Grandma Hester with our family – Christmas 2004
We haven’t had much good news around here lately. First my husband came down with influenza. He said a guy came to work sick and that’s all it took for him to get sick. Now the rest of us seem to be getting the symptoms too, hoping its not the same thing. And while he is dealing with that and missing 3 days of work, he received a call from his sister, Pam. Pam said that their mother, Hester, age 83, is not doing well at all and in fact may not make it through the night. This was last Saturday and she is still holding on but Chuck is not able to fly out to California to be there with her. She may not even be aware of his presence if he got there and he admitted that he just couldn’t see her like that. He seems to be distancing himself from the pain of losing her so far but the time will come when it will hit him. He told his sister just to let him know when the worst happens. The hard part for us right now is that we are all sick and cannot afford to fly out to California. The cheapest flight we found so far, roundtrip was $946 I believe. And that is for 1 person. I just worry that Chuck will have regrets if he doesn’t get a chance to see her before she passes. Its so hard to know if she will be aware of his presence or not. My husband is one who chooses to procrastinate or put off the things he cannot afford to put off and then will pay the price later. I wish I knew how to help him. I sure have been saying a lot of prayers lately.
On a good note, a friend of mine went to her son’s wedding today. I can’t wait to see the pictures and hear all the details. At least there’s a happy event in the middle of all this sadness.
