Bringing you up to date...

06:53PM -- Needless to say, the last couple of days have been difficult. Larry has accepted his fate, and is so dignified in light of what his happening to him. He has begun to hurt from the slightest touch almost anywhere on his body. He tried to sit on the edge of our bed yesterday a couple of times, but could only stay there about a minute. He's growing weaker every day. However, he did eat a Michelini's (sp) dish of Garlic Tuscany-Style Chicken Alfredo late last night, only leaving a couple of bites. Today, he has eaten half a bagel and is munching on celery and peanut butter. He hasn't experienced any nausea today, so far. Jim -- from dialysis -- stopped by last night and talked to us for a while. He told Larry that if he changed his mind and wanted to dialyze, all we had to do was call him and he'd have things set up for him. Larry told him last week was too much, and that at this point, dialysis was only prolonging the inevitable.

He has talked to all of his children. He said he hopes to talk to all of them at least once more. I spoke to Jim outside last night and asked him if my thoughts on what was about to happen. He validated them. He said that Larry - given his current condition - because his last dialysis was last Thursday, would most likely slip into a coma over the coming weekend or very early next week. Many of his techs at dialysis will be stopping by to see him in the next day or so. Lyn and Alyce (his mom) will arrive here Wednesday - probably around mid-day. My two boys have already talked to their supervisors, and between their PTO (paid time off), bereavement, vacation and about 7 days of unpaid time will be here with us/me until mid-November beginning this week.

I'll try to update the blog as often as possible - at least daily - from here on out. It's hard to sit here and write this, but I want all of you to be informed.