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Definitely looks better. All the color on the paper towels is a little disturbing to see but it sure is a pretty shade of pink.
Thank you all. It’s hard to put anything into words lately. My uncle had a form of cancer called multiple myeloma. He’d been in remission, but apparently took a turn for the worst this last month. He was at Emory in Atlanta on Wednesday to see if he would qualify for an experimental treatment but he didn’t. The doctors had given him two months based on his condition at the time.
It definitely has me concerned for my mother as she turns 77 this year. She’s active and healthy (other than mild high blood pressure). Her mother lived until she was 80.
Then for my husband, this year has started almost the same as 2007. He lost his father’s parents in late January and early March that year, then his father in October. He’s been worried about his mother based on that.
This year still doesn’t seem real. I keep thinking when am I going to wake up and find it was all a dream. I feel like I’m running on fumes, waking up tired and dragging through the day.
I’m done with this year. First my husband’s grandfather passed in January, then his grandmother passed in February, and now my uncle passed on Thursday. 😥
Not even up for 12 hours an already over $1k. 🤯
Pawpaw passed very early Friday morning. He had made his wishes well known, so funeral service was yesterday (Saturday). We had a family viewing, then the service was outside at the cemetery. It was cold, but sunny.
My heart goes out to the family members, but especially his wife, who told us when we last visited that she can’t remember a time without him in her life. My heart also hurts for my husband. He spent a lot of time with his grandparents when his was a child and his parents divorced and then his mother went to nursing school. They were a second set of parents to him so he’s just lost a “father”.
So I’ve been working on the dragon that goes along with this unicorn … it goes to my friend. At first he was being a little bugger because he didn’t want to be black and red with green eyes. I picked up a bottle of metallic antique copper and decided to mix it with the red and wow what a difference! I am having a hard time stopping for the night. It took me two sessions to paing the black, one with metallic red and then this one with the metallic antique copper/metallic red mix. I still have to go through and touch up with black where I was a little sloppy.
I meant to mention it earlier, lol, but this fellow is back with me because after I got divorced all those years ago I ended up marrying the friend I painted it for.
Can 2022 stop already?
My husband’s grandfather (Pawpaw) has been on a ventilator since last week. He went into the hospital for some work on his pacemaker, ended up needing dialysis as well and was even on a feeding tube for a bit. They are supposed to be taking him off the ventilator today.
We don’t have as many details of his progress last week because my mother-in-law, his daughter, was in a near head-on collision the Friday before and has been stuck at home due to five broken ribs and a broken ankle. She’s lucky that the girl who hit her didn’t kill her. The girl was too busy sending snapchats (confirmed in the police report) to pay attention to the US highway she was on (mother-in-law was at a stop sign waiting to cross).
They aren’t expecting Pawpaw to live very long once he’s off the ventilator. His wife, Mawmaw, hasn’t been in the best health so it’s expected that she won’t live too long after Pawpaw passes. They are both 88 and have been married 68 years.
My husband is starting to have flashbacks to 2007 when he lost his Gramps (father’s father) in January, Granny (father’s mother) in March, and father in October.
Snow flurries throughout most of Alabama today, even down in Opp where I am. Nothing stuck and I didn’t actually see the flurries, but my husband did. Brrr! Hope everyone stays warm.
Finished my sister-in-law’s presents just in time to wrap them up for Christmas. I hope she likes them.
I had some severe chest pain Saturday night and again Sunday night. Sunday was worse and based on family history of heart attacks my husband and I decided better safe than sorry and headed to the local ER. After an overnight hospital stay, three EKGs, and several blood tests, come to find out it was just high blood pressure. I’m on medication now and have a new patient/follow up in two weeks. I wouldn’t wish that pain I had on anyone – to me it was almost as bad as childbirth (one of my three was natural, had epidurals with the other two).
*Blows dust off thread* Whew! Has it really been that long since I posted something in here. *LOL* I guess it has. Right now I’m looking for some advice/tips for two PYOs that I plan on working on here shortly. I plan on painting a pair of short hair cats as memorials for my sister-in-law’s snowshoe and orange tabby.
And any tips for painting orange tabby stripes would be appreciated. I’ve never had much luck when it comes to stripes. I at least have plenty of pictures of him as a young adult (as well as old man status) because we lived together for a year while she an my brother were engaged so I have lots of him, plus she had lots of him in her FB photos.
I have a picture of the snowshoe as a kitten and adult. Should I start with making it look close to the kitten and then darken up the coat to match the adult? The snowshoe was gotten after she and my brother were married so I only got to see her when visiting. I wish I had more pictures of her as an adult, but she was always skittish by that point so I never got a picture of her so I had dive through my SIL’s FB pictures looking for some of her.
