SO. SO glad to be back home .... and while latest sourdough batch came to life, raised, got kneaded, baked....I was thinking about Stan and Mary. My cousin Stan Huffaker had moved into a hospice space and passed away just before Thanksgiving. The memorial was Dec 6 in Couer dAlene, their home. Stan and Mary have been frequent visitors at our house the last 3 years since, in a late stage cancer onset, OHSU here in Portland gave blessing to giving him a bone marrow transplant, the donor being his sister Gayle. This meant he would need to visit doctors here every 1 to 3 months…..depending on how things went…..and they went up and down for about 2 years, then a slow decline began. Not good for he and Mary, who for a long time here has been the 24 hour a day single support nurse for Stan…. He was well liked in Couer d’Alene, ID. where they lived, and we felt we needed to go be part of the memorial weekend planned. It was a long drive with temps near 32 and winds blowing….. but the experience was wonderfully warm, and we were glad we were there. We were lucky to meet so many people Mary had talked about……. I DID miss getting to see one or two of my own cousins who I havent talked to in years , but in this last 3 years, our lives were so wrapped with Mary & Stan, seems it was where we belonged.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:45:31 +0000
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