kyburg | Bad News

I've been trying to find that post I made when I got the news that Marian Kelly's husband, Jack, had been given his terminal diagnosis. It couldn't have been more than four or five months ago.

Well, I got the call tonight. He's passed. *HUGE sigh*

We went over and saw them before we went to Canada, and Jack was Jack. And that was good.

I think hospice had just enough time to get the hospital bed in the house over last weekend - and knowing Jack, I think that was enough to convince him it was time to get out of here. He was on oxygen, SO MUCH opiate pain relief, it was scary - and it just wasn't getting any better.

So send it back out the grapevine. Jack Kelly has left the building.

I'll go over and check on Marian this weekend.

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And dammit, I hate being right. I was just telling Jim earlier this week after checking in with Marian that I didn't think Jack was going to last the summer. Just - wasn't.

Dammit dammit dammit.