Oct. 18: I really wish that I wasn’t writing this post. Bryan’s grandpa, Dandy, moved from the hospital to a Hospice center in Wichita yesterday. Bryan, his sister, and his parents have plans to meet in Kansas on Friday to spend time with Dandy and with Grandma Jo and to be there to support each other.
Dandy is such a wonderful, generous, full-of-life person, and it’s hard to know that he and Grandma Jo and Bryan’s dad are in a position where they are having to say goodbye. My heart is with them. In fact most of my thoughts are with them too.
Bryan’s dad is an only child, and they are all so close. I feel like it must somehow be harder when there are less people to carry the burdens, to support and remember together.
Dandy was so happy to see and hear about Andrew. Andy and Dandy he would say. I would really like to take Andrew down to give Dandy another opportunity to see him, but it seems like this weekend is probably a better time for Bryan to be able to go down and support his dad and grandma as an adult rather than as a parent-trailing-a-toddler.
I feel so very lucky to have married into a family that is filled with such wonderful people. My world is better (immeasurably so!) because of the family that Dandy helped to raise.
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia