Friday - June 16, 2017 – Life Happens
Last time I posted a blog was when we returned to Wisconsin
in April. Since this blog is part personal journal I want to make note of some
significant life events that have happened since my last post. We are currently
at a Heartland RV Owners Rally in Goshen Indiana. I will provide information on
this event in a future post.
As I said, we returned to Wisconsin in April the week before
Easter. Toward the end of April my sister Pam was having health issues. On May
1st she was admitted to the hospital to find out why she was getting bouts of delirium
and having trouble talking. I went to Chippewa Falls on Thursday to visit her.
I returned home May 9th to attend a birthday party on May14th for our neighbor
Carmie. During the two weeks my sister was in the hospital they ran every kind
of test imaginable to try to determine what was causing her symptoms. Ultimately
it was determined that her MS had entered her brain and was affecting the area
that controls sleeping, eating and speech. She had both a Do Not Resuscitate
order and no feeding tube order in place. Norm and my family met with the
doctors and made the very hard decision to take her off life support. She was
taken to Dove nursing home facility in Chippewa Falls the same day. On
Wednesday May 17th I returned to Chippewa Falls to be with her and
my family during her final days. She passed away on the evening of May 25th.
A celebration of life visitation was held on Tuesday May 30th. Pam
will be missed by all her family and friends. Love you forever big Sis.
During this time there were two more events that happened. On
Monday May 15th my nephew Stevie and Nicole’s house was struck by lightning
and caught on fire. The fire burned in the basement for several hours before it
was detected and ultimately it was deemed a total loss. No one was home at the
moment so everyone was ok. The same day my brother Steve (Stevie’s dad and my
brother who had heart surgery back in February) was at the site of the fire and
started to have chest pain. They took him to the hospital. After a few tests
they determined one of the bypass repairs had collapsed and his blood was
flowing through one of the old, blocked arteries. They fixed him up by putting
a stint in that artery. This was great news and he should be good to go for a
long while.
As for Stevie and Nicole, they received a check from the
insurance company for the house the next day and found an apartment to live in
until they can get their house rebuilt. If there is a silver lining they now
have the opportunity to lay out a new and better floor plan for the home and
add a few extra square feet.
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