February update

Anne and I returned from a two week trip to Dayton last week. When we went, we were expecting to lose a dear cousin, Sue, who was in Hospice there. We left on Monday the 8th and barely beat the snow storm the next day. But on the 12th, we lost another cousin, Jamie, in Middletown who had also been very sick. Jamie's funeral was on the 15th in the midst of a veritable blizzard and early the next morning Sue died. Our family was and still is devastated. These losses came after Jamie's only nephew, Adam, died in his sleep of sleep apnea on December 23rd at age 29. He was just married in August. So we lost three cousins within about 6 weeks. For those who want to read more, go to http://mproc.blogspot.com/ and read my sister's blog or to http://www.breastcancerdiva.com/ and read cousin Robyn's blog. I cannot add anything not already said. Cousin Sandy lost her only sister, Cousin Barry lost his only son and his only sister. We are temporarily adrift. Jamie was 58 and Sue was 64.

We had planned recently that whenever we got to Kentucky we would try to catch up with high school classmates, but this just wasn't to be the trip. We spent the night with Mona and visited with our mother at the nursing home who has moderate to severe Alzheimer's. We were anxious to get back to Chattanooga. I have some minor mostly cosmetic eye surgery scheduled next week in Nashville and Anne is looking forward (?) to a knee replacement in June.

I am still trying to refine a Facebook site -- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Winchester-KY/Class-of-1963-Clark-County-High-School-Winchester-KY/279058711247?created for 1963 high school classmates but am not very successful YET!

Our best wishes to all and it's time to start looking forward to spring.