Ramblings, Incoherent Thought and Family

It's weird. Writing about that night was cathartic for me in so many ways...thank you for all the kind words. I rarely do 'follow-ups'...but today I had to...because Last night I got a chance to talk to Gram... Now I'm not crazy and I know now it was a dream of course...but it felt so real last night... The dream was structured like this...I was at Grandma's old house for some reason and the family was there and we were discussing Grandma when someone said that she was ok. It appears the last 20 years was a mistake on our parts. She was only 'Mostly dead' or something like that...and the doctors managed to revive her. She was still bed-ridden...but she was back. It was seriously like something out of some cheesy soap opera or something. It was surreal to be sure and USUALLY in these types of things I know I'm dreaming...but last night I went with it. I found myself just sitting and talking with her. The family were all running around and doing th...

I remember it being somewhat mild that day. Sunny for most of it. It was a Saturday and I had just gotten the lead in the school musical (Damn Yankees). I was pretty high on life. I was kinda just fiddle farting around before I was gonna go to work at the mall (my Mom was Assistant Manager at The Pro Image so my Dad, sister and I all worked there at various points) to help close up when the phone rang at 2:30. It was my Aunt Micki and she told my Mother that she better get into Grandma's right away. Grandma had slipped into another diabetic coma like a few weeks before. Like sailors on an Aircraft Carrier at General Quarters...we all reacted. Betty was going to a 'Steck Party' that night (her first), so was going to stay at home and get picked up I believe by Joe Pfeffer. My Mom and Dad told me to get ready and they'd run me into Eastview and I"d have to amuse myself till 6 when my shift started. We got ready and the three of us were off within 30 minutes...