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Brazos Valley | Barb,
I just wanted to let you know what your photos and posts sharing your daily travels of life have meant to me over the last decade or two. I’ve never been to your part of the country and I’ve always dreamed of it being the “original” farm country of America with big barns and rolling hills and through your AMAZING eye for photography you captured what I dreamed of. I’ve had one of your photos as the background on my iPhone for at least five years. It’s a picture of an old barn with a quilt taken in winter or fall. I even found a regional artist that painted barn quilts and she had very small one that fit me to a tee and it now hangs in my bedroom. We don’t have barn quilts in Texas unless someone has moved here from up north. I’m so thankful to have seen your countryside through your camera lens.
Hearing that you have decided to forgo further treatment hits me really close to home as well. My father has been fighting colon cancer for almost a year now and the chemo was kinda working but they wanted to go in and remove things and cut a piece of his liver out and he freaked out and said no so they decided to do radiation instead. After two dosages of radiation my old man couldn’t eat, sleep, drink and was in a lot of pain. His bowels became unpredictable and he has been in a downward spiral since then. He spent five days in the hospital last month trying to get his bowels situated and pain down. My five siblings and I believe that he’s been pushing to make it to tomorrow, my parents 50th anniversary. This weekend we are having a big celebration of their anniversary and it would not surprise me one bit if we hear that he too has made the same decision as you. As his third child and second son, it hurts my heart to know that my pops isn’t going to be around much longer but it hurts my heart even more to see the man whom I thought was the toughest sob on the planet to be in such pain. I plan on reassuring him that I will make sure that mom is taken cared for once he passes and I pray that those words will bring him peace.
I’m praying for you Barb and I’m so thankful that our internet paths crossed. AgTalk and this world will have a hole that cannot be filled without you.
God bless,
Caleb | |
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Decision day
