I know many of you have seen my recent posts regarding my stepdad, Robert Magotch. He died on Friday at 2:55pm. It is so hard to see that in writing. He died. I didnt write immediately, for a variety of reasons. Part of me felt like if I just acted like it never happened, he would somehow wake up, open his eyes, and come back to us. Then I felt like there was no way I could do him justice in a simple post on Facebook. Yet, here I am, trying to find words that will express not only how heartbroken I am, but to let everyone who never met him how very special he was, and will always be, to me. Bob was a very funny, cranky, loving, supportive and no nonsense kind of guy. He took in all the little details of my life and made them important to him as well. Philip Hastings? He knows who you are, how you and Allen Newton befriending me in a strange city where I felt so incredibly alone at times. Alysha Harvey and Kelly McComas and Anne Dalton Weber? He knows how funny you are, how you were people so important to me. Every day, he would ask about my job, what my schedule was going to be, and when I would be home. He gave me a LOT of grief about my cooking. He always thought I made way too much food! Yet, he would eat it, sometimes taking a few servings :D Our standing joke was that no matter what I cooked for him, I would ask him, Is that the best(enter food item here) you have had today? He was often weak and sore and tired from the months of chemo and radiation and cancer that finally took him from us. Through it all, he loved us. I remember times when he was so overwhelmed about what was happening to his body, and nothing my Mom Sydney Clark Regehr and I could do to make him comfortable. He would just grab my hand and tell me thank you. I will miss him so much. I will miss watching my beloved Packers with him, playing along with Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, picking out horses in the races and trying to figure out how much we would have won, if we had actually bet. For those of you lucky enough to know him, you realize what an incredible hole we will have in our lives from now on, but also how lucky we are to have loved and been loved by such a wonderful man.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:16:47 +0000
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