It's 12:47 am, and I am quite drunk. I'm going to bed now. I'll wake up briefly about 3:30 with a roaring headache, pee, get a drink of water, and go back to sleep. I don't care. I won't mind the headache. Today my oldest brother decided of his own free will to enter hospice care. The doctor says at most he has a few weeks. He's nine years older than me. As a child, I idolized him. As adults, he was a ne'er-do-well, always broke, mostly unemployed. But I love this ne'er-do-well, and I will mourn his passing. This is hard.
@fifonetworks
I'm so sorry to hear this, Bob. I always appreciate the thoughtfulness and humanity in your posts. Thanks for your candor about this painful life-changing development. My feed often scrolls by, in one eyeball and out the other, but I'll be thinking of this and you for a while. Take care, and be as good to yourself as you are to others.
@tom
Thank you, Tom.