Dick, a few memories...

Well, this has been a few weeks that I could have done without!!Barbara's illness, death and burial, etc. Got home from the "wake" following Barbara's funeral and got a phone call from Dick! He sounded "kind of" funny but I thought he was tired. He had been here from Thurs. night late until Sunday night. Kept me on the "go" trying to keep up with him, but that's Dick. I said, "Oh, are you home now from Dallas?" He and Janie had gone to Denton to check out somet hing on their new house that they are supposed to move into in Dec, He says "No, as a matter of fact, I'm in the Hospital here in Dallas!" When I asked him what was wrong, he said that he had had a "mini" stroke! I said "Don't do this to me Dick!" Then he told me that they were going to keep him that night and that turned into 3 and half days and nights! He did have a stroke alright and it was caused by the "Caritoid"? arteries in his neck and he was going to have to wait and see what they were going to do with him! So on this coming Tuesday, Oct. 21st he will have the operation or a reaming out of the artery! He thought he was going to get out today and then go golfing with his friend there in Denton, where Janie has been staying with them. So Janie called me about noon,today, our time, and told me that they had let him out of the hospital but not only was he not going golfing, he wasn't to bend over, lift anything, etc. His sugar was pretty high the other day but the Drs. have now said that he will be a borderline diabetic and will treat it with medication .( a pill!) His operation will be in the early afternoon on the 21st and as to when he will be able to go home to Cleveland is still up in the air!!! I think I can hear him now where I live. But Dick, be a good guy and do what the Dr. tells you. You have children and grandchildren that need you as well as your Mother ad your Brothers!!!! I did have a nice, I thought, visit with him when he was here last weekend! Has it only been that long? It seems like he has been gone a month!! A few memories come back to me that I was talking to him about when he was here. We had gone to Church and he said, "Every Church seems to have a different version of some of the Hymns, don't they?" And we got to talking about Janie's beautiful voice AND his ! I told him about one time that I visited them in Cleveland and they took me over near Warren, Pennsylvania, to a hunting place that Dick had leased from State, County, or something. It was a nice place. John, Dick's son went with us and Rene, his wife. It was a pleasant day but a sudden shower came up and thunder, lightning, rain started to pour and so we decided to come home. John and Rene were supposed to be following us and they were, for awhile. But I remember we got to this one town on the way home, the sun broke out and everything looked so fresh and green, and on the radio was a religious program and they started to sing "How Great Thou Art"! That is one of my favorite hymns anyway, but Dick started to sing and Janie chimed in and I actually had goosebumps! I told him last week when he was here, Never was a song more appropriate but their voices blending in together was so BEAUTIFUL!!!! He says Janie does have a beautiful voice and I told him that the two of them should think about joining a choir when they move! He said he had thought about it!! You two would be a great addition to any choir!!! There Dick, I'll bet you thought I was going to talk about some of your "escapades" didn't you? Well, I'll let you get well and then you can tear into me, Okay?