Dad's Last Days

By the middle of March, it became obvious, that dad was not going to get better.  His last few weeks were filled with constant visitors from family and friends.

Chandler and Tesa brought tiny baby Rowen, 1 week old to meet dad.

Pierce and Adelaide came from California, and Robynn spent the last month of his life right at his side.  Dick also came from Texas

Skyler and Elinor came from Texas

Tatia and little Charlie came from Virginia

Chase and his sweet family came from Michigan

Dad's favorite nurse Brian came to say goodbye

Mike Brown stopped by almost every day for a visit

 

Bonnie and Dennis came from Arizona

Marie

Boyd and Deanne

Ila Fae

Josh cleaning his stitches

Jamie

Krista and Sophie

Me and Mike

There were COUNTLESS others who came for visits as well that I didn't get pictures of.

All of my siblings and I were able to spend his last few days and nights, at his side.  What a special time that was for us to be there as he left this world and joined our mom up in heaven.

We LOVE and will miss you fiercely Dad!!!

Mike breaks his leg

On Feb. 28th, Mike took Sophie and Jack to the dollar store to get a treat.  On the way to the car, his walking stick slipped on some rock salt and he went down.  He ended up breaking his leg.

We took him to Instacare and they put this LONG splint on him which made it so he couldn't do anything!  It was awful!  Saturday morning, Josh and Jordan showed up and built a ramp.

in our garage

 so that he could get in and out of our house without having to crawl.

Krista brought over one of dad's wheelchairs and with the ramp, he could get around so much easier.

The next Tuesday, we finally got in to see the Dr.  He put him in  a short boot.  Hooray!!!!

 He can actually walk on it and get around much better.  Yay for the short boot!
Now on to a speedy recovery!

Dad's visits to the hospital

Dad had not been feeling very good and the end of January got a call from his doctor telling him that his white blood count was very low and he needed to go to the emergency room.  Kathy and Cierra had just gotten to his house for a visit and answered the phone call.  They took him to the hospital where he ended up staying for a few days.  They did some surgery to try to put some stints into his kidney, but it didn't work.

They sent him over to IMC and tried a different procedure that didn't work either.  They sent him home and said they would try again in a few weeks.  Robynn flew into town and spent time taking care of him

Dad is spending lots of time on the couch these days.

Before we knew it, he was back at IMC to try again and then another trip a few weeks later to finally get it the way they thought it should work, it hasn't yet, but we are hopeful that it will soon.

He's had lots of nice visitors at home. 

We are all learning to do lots more than we ever wanted to about home health care.

More visitors

Dad is spending most of his days taking lots of naps and is in lots of pain. He needs round the clock help and sweet Robynn flew in again to help out!  Sophie stopped by and let dad take a nap with one of her favorite kitties. 

More fun with the grandkids!

It is so fun having these former Arizona boys join our Utah Grandkids!

Even though it's still chilly outside, they love to be out in our back yard.

Tether ball is a favorite too!

Logan is always so helpful in the kitchen.

I hit Old Navy's clearance the other day and found some matching shirts for these cute boys.

On the Friday before Valentines, we invited the grandkids over so their parents could have a date night.  They made some fun valentine cards.

We had Jamie's kids over to play with Jordan's kids a few weeks ago.  They sure have fun together.

 

There was a Safety Fair in Sandy and a bunch of our grandkids went to that!

Hi Maui

Last weekend we went to the Clark planetarium with Josh and Jordan's kids

All our grandkids LOVE making things with Perler beads.  This was Logan's first project.

He made the cutest rainbow dolphin

Off to Arizona to bring back our Arizona kids

In October, Jordan got told he and ton of others would be laid off their jobs with Intel.  Luckily, he still had a job until March, but he immediately started looking for anotherone.  He got an offer to work at the office in California, which would have been wonderful for them, since it was close to Jamie's parents, but housing costs are outrageous!  Lucky for us, he also got an offer from the Intel in Lehi, and prices are a little more affordable here, so after much praying, they decided to take the Utah job.  I flew down the end of January to bring the boys back with me on the plane.

While I was there, we got to go to their awesome Phoenix Zoo.

Parker was a great help getting things taken apart as you can imagine.

Logan loved helping tape the boxes for us.

They filled a 26 foot moving van and put one of their cars on a trailer behind it.  Jamie drove the van full of stuff (with a detour through Las Vegas to say hi to the Back Street Boys)

I'm so happy that they all made it safely here, and Jamie's sweet grandma is letting them live in her beautiful basemen apartment until their new house is built in the fall.