TheBanyanTree: Cecil

[auntie sash]

fine - one last check before I hit the road and you make me cry.

brat.

I'm gonna print out the top part for him.  I'll skip the part where Lou says
he's dying.  Probably not a newsflash but we don't need to dwell on it.

Off to get hershey's bars and peanut butter cups.  And a grip.  maybe.

(uh - I think you're pretty cool, by the way.)

later

sash

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM, paul <paul at remsset.com> wrote:

> I'm not good at a lot of things, for example, telling someone "I love you".
>
> I joined Spoon a bit before May 1996 and I soon met a lot of people. It's
> pretty simple... get a computer, add e-mail, find Spoon through a blurb in
> "The Scout Report", and you have instant friends.
>
> Cecil in person is just as nice and warm and friendly as on the screen.
>  Taller than I had imagined, but.  The man ain't got a fake bone in him.
>  Even if he is a Lyin' Sum Bitch Phony Texan.  LSBPT, or something like
> that.  :)
>
> So, anyway, his e-mail addy is longhorncecil at comcast.net and the mailing
> addy if ya want to send wishes is
> 3800 14th Ave. S.E. #D179
> Lacey, Washington  98503
>
>
> Dear Cecil, the first sentence above applies to you.
>
> hugs,
>
> paul
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [UpperBranches] Cecil is dying
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:10:30 -0800
> From: Cecil Talley <longhorncecil at comcast.net>
>
> No easy way to say it, why the doctor was very blunt in informing me
> that Cecil is dying.  Tests show that his lungs are completely gone, right
> lung filled with fluid, the Albuerol helps but must also be on another
> nebulizer with a medication that dries fluid in the lungs, but there is
> nothing else that can be done for him except to be sure that there is no
> infection which has cleared up.
>
> Doctor was amazed that dad is being cared for at home but a facility
> will only be when things are beyond our control to give dad the care
> he needs at home and too weak to get out of bed. He is already too
> weak to cough up phlegm or most of it and why he must be on two
> nebulizers with two medications to help with that problem.
>
> Glad my brother flew up here to assist, lot of odds and ends to tie
> up in gettlng settled in Washington with insurance and other issues,
> but I may try to take dictation for dad like a secretary or have his
> new nurse do this for him, dad is being evaluated on the 10th to see
> just what level of care is needed before assigning someone to him who
> can do the job or multiple jobs and must be a women, he still likes
> to flirt at 93 and be a dirty old man.
>
> Dads other book was a story called "The Farmer In The Well" that was
> published in a mystery magazine (Elery Queen) and purchased by a
> production company in England for $10.00.
> My book is mainly for war vets with PTSD, only reason why I consented
> to writing the biography after ten years of people bugging me to do
> this. PDF version is at
>
> Cover Front and Back
> http://www.box.net/shared/static/5d32cyxvso.pdf
>
> Inside book:
> http://www.box.net/shared/static/vg2xnszcf1.pdf
>
> All is one day at a time here as there is just no telling when that
> day will arrive.
>
> Dad misunderstood Sash, thinking she lived here in Washington nearby,
> have to break the news that Oregon is a good ways from Lacey, WN so
> not to expect company.
>
> Am usually wild and crazy and a bit uncivilized myself but this is is
> not the season to be jolly, maybe thankful for sure but here is a
> season for evreything.
>
> Keep the letters coming to dad, is a very big moral booster for him,
> me or his nurse will pass along things in his own words so you don't
> get it second hand from another brain.
>
> Lou Talley
>
> --
>
>


-- 
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man
if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature
and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- EB White