Back Track to November
It was in October during my brief visit back in the states that I really noted a problem with my dad. I invited my dad and his wife to accompany me back to Ecuador for a week to see the beach house that Doug and I had purchased a little over a year ago. It's here that I knew something had to be done to procure treatment for my dad.
It was a few months previous to this, that after lengthy discussions with Doug, we decided to put the beach house up for sale and begin showing it to prospective buyers. My reason was health issues with my dad and that I wanted to be closer should he need me for anything. I escorted them home, and returned to Ecuador a week later until mid March 2008. Renting rooms like crazy for the peak times of Carnival and Easter was a breeze and we had one group that had taken the entire house for the month of January.
When I got home, I learned that my dad was scheduled for a needed surgery to remove the tumor that had developed behind his left eye. He went in for the surgery from which he never awakened on March 27, 2008. We closed on the house in Ecuador on Monday, March 31, 2008. So in reality, two chapters closed in my life...one of which had changed my life and the way I look at life forever! The other merely a dream that came true for a season but an experience I'll not soon forget.
Believe it or not, there is a moral to this rhetoric. BE and STAY on good terms with those you love and that love you because not one of us knows when the times to express it all will end! You never realize exactly what you have until you have it no more! Fair to say that my dad and I had a mutual admiration and respect for one another that was never taken for granted and that we parted knowing that the bond of love and family was irrefutably undeterred.
It was a few months previous to this, that after lengthy discussions with Doug, we decided to put the beach house up for sale and begin showing it to prospective buyers. My reason was health issues with my dad and that I wanted to be closer should he need me for anything. I escorted them home, and returned to Ecuador a week later until mid March 2008. Renting rooms like crazy for the peak times of Carnival and Easter was a breeze and we had one group that had taken the entire house for the month of January.
When I got home, I learned that my dad was scheduled for a needed surgery to remove the tumor that had developed behind his left eye. He went in for the surgery from which he never awakened on March 27, 2008. We closed on the house in Ecuador on Monday, March 31, 2008. So in reality, two chapters closed in my life...one of which had changed my life and the way I look at life forever! The other merely a dream that came true for a season but an experience I'll not soon forget.
Believe it or not, there is a moral to this rhetoric. BE and STAY on good terms with those you love and that love you because not one of us knows when the times to express it all will end! You never realize exactly what you have until you have it no more! Fair to say that my dad and I had a mutual admiration and respect for one another that was never taken for granted and that we parted knowing that the bond of love and family was irrefutably undeterred.
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