Before Your Time

Posted by Tumbles on 11/7/2009 7:07:17 PM

I try to write a blog every week about a ride event that went on or where I went something about the ride. However last weekend I never posted anything there was so much going. I should have had something to post. Hell the weekend started out with A1A on friday evening packed on the way to the beaches becuase of the Georgia/ Florida game. Saturday night was Halloween, then there was the time change and don't forget a full moon. There are some big event going on there that I should have some funny great story towrit about. Thurday night I carved the pumpkin, it was a really big one and made an awesome Jack-o-lantern. I carved it old school. My neighbors did theirs new school with those cool pumpkin carving kts. I roasted the pumpkin seeds and currently muching on them. Hell the alley I live on had a combined halloween party, and I went as a St. Paule Girl, which was cute as hell, however I 'd rather wear my pirates costume but I loanded that out. So what am I writing about? Not any of those things, well maybe a little. There was something that happened that effected me more than any of those fun things. I didn't realize how much until last night. My friend who is a good friend her father passed. One ould think that it was great relief to see him go. He was a very sick man. He had several disease and the treatment for each diseae was contraindcated to another. I never met a man that was so relaxed and comfortable with himself. I'm sure in his younger days he could have been a bastard if crossed, but then what young man isn't? He fought in a war. He was in the navy and serived his country proudly. He travel with his young family all over the country and globe. Where every he was stationed his family was there too. K has some of the most interesting memories as a child she can talk about growing up in Cuba, California, New Jersey, Germany, California and oklahoma. I knew him in his later years. I never once saw him without a smile. When in his presence you could feel his ease and comfort, kindness, and how at peace he was with all that was around him. He appeared a very happy man. Moe, had dibeatis, then the problems with kidneys started. he didn't like any of the treatments but went and tolerated them. Then it happened he got an insect bite on his foot, because of poor circulation, he soon develpoed a big sore that just wouldn't heal. In the end he lost his leg from the knee down. Even then I never saw the man with out a smile, or good workd. When you looked at him you knew he was completly satisfied with his life. He ended up in the hopsital, had shortness of breath. He was now diagnosed with heart disease and hypertention. None of his treatments agreed with another. He after mild stress test was told his heart only had 60 function and his time was limited. Just two weeks ago I went to diner with them at the Crabcake Factory in Jacksonville. There his was playimng and teasing with Jill a family friend and waitress there. All I can say is what a flirt. Still there he was in his wheel chair, wife, daughter and two friends of the family just smiling, at at total ease. I never knew a man more satisfied, more happy, and content. Just days later I learned of his passing. I sit here now with tears running down my face. K was surprised how upset she was, she was shocked at how well her mother was holding up. Me what I learned from Moe is I hope that I will come to the point in my life that I am completely satisfied with my life, at peace with life and just happy because. We are all given time, and none of us know how short that time is, time will waits for no one and what we do with that time is what is important. My deepest sympathies to the family. He is a man that will be missed. Rest in Peace. "T"