My family will be heading to Baltimore Sunday to visit my mother; we’ll be back just before Thanksgiving.
Thanks to all of you for your kind words and well wishes.
Also, thanks to Bobby U and SW for your donations. Very much appreciated!
update: received a call from family and the health care facility in which my mother is staying. Evidently she’s taken a turn for the worse and they want us to try to fly in earlier than Sunday. My wife is out of town right now but we’re going to try to find a flight out tomorrow evening.
If you’re so inclined, say a prayer or two for us.
update 2: So. Southwest Airlines doesn’t do bereavement rates or anything like that. To change our flights will cost us $4K, plus my wife will have to get a flight home early from her business trip. My brother is also going to pocket the $10K from the life insurance policy he holds on my mom and make me pay for the funeral. So here’s hoping she can hold on until the Sunday afternoon. As executor of Mom’s estate, I’m going to have to pay her bills and taxes, too — and she has nothing left that my brother hasn’t stolen, so I just can’t do everything. It’s not possible.
My Mom is off all medication except morphine at this point.
So. If anyone needs me, I’ll be by myself.
Oh. And fuck Southwest Airlines. Seriously. Fuck them. At least if she holds out until Friday, I can make the funeral.
update 3: With some help I was able to get a flight today. Thanks everyone.
Sumbitch. It worked!
So sorry you have to go through this. If she passes, may her better offspring be at her bedside.
May the good Lord bless you and keep you;
may he make his face to shine upon you, and bring you peace.
Praying for you and your mom, Jeff.
There are people who make the world a better place, there are most who don’t make a difference one way or the other, and then there are a few who really need to be beaten to death out of principal. This stuff is so hard even when you aren’t dealing with one of the latter types. Try not to let them get you down.
Praying for God’s grace and peace upon you and your mother.
I’m saddened to learn of this, Jeff, and my meager prayers are sent.
Consider this…if you rent a car, drive the 25 hours to Baltimore, you can drop off the rental there and fly back on your return tickets. Perhaps SW will give you a break on the inbound tickets, Denver to Baltimore?
Many times I’ve driven Phoenix to Nashville; 24 hours. Break it up halfway through; it’s a piece of cake.
Be strong. All things pass.
Jeff just tweeted his last arranged flight was cancelled without notice. After getting to the airport, after enduring TSA screening.
If you’ve a prayer to spare now would be a good time I think.
Heartfelt condolences to you and your family Jeff.
Jeff Tweeted that, also, his Mother has passed away.
https://twitter.com/proteinwisdom/status/534774913890934784
My prayers for you and your family on your loss. May you make it to Maryland in time and safe.
Oh dear. So sorry.
I’m very sorry to hear about your mother, Jeff, and I hope the difficulties you are currently dealing with are resolved quickly and justly.
If Brother Useless shows up for the funeral, it’s okay to “accidentally” knock him into the trench as long as someone else is driving the backhoe.
Condolences to you and your family.
I am sorry for your loss and everything going on.
Jeff, my best to you and yours.
Jeff you are a heroic person. I believe you could have gone the happy happy jingle swingle route and been better financially.
The fact you write with honesty, speaking Truth, in ways most ( including me) cannot understand enough to the point of replication does nobody the good you earning millions with your writing and WARNINGS could do. That existential dread sucks.
And yet. Especially in tough times, which I don’t know shit about because I have tried to isolate myself from despair to the point of now expecting it to the extent of maybe even needing it, I just know your spirit will drive on.
Recruiting OUTLAWS in ways opposite any cult, ever.
Brother, I always recoil at that term unless it’s from my brother, but not now.
Uh oh. I don’t do Paypal and Amazon has a $600 dollar item the lowest priced I could purchase giftwise.
I understand frustration at my stupidity, as I feel it now.
Any wayfor you to just add cheap ($20 or $30 or maybe $19?) Amazon item(s) for me?
Obviously if you don’t do this within ten minutes you can FOAD.
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That was supposed to be funny.
I laughed in my mind.
I did.
So sorry to hear about your mother’s passing, Jeff. May God grant her peace and bring comfort to her surviving loved ones. My prayers are with you and your family.
My condolences Jeff.
My condolences to you and your family, Jeff. May she rest in peace.
My condolences. Hang in there, Jeff.
My condolences for your loss, Jeff.
Now that I’m a little less angry at Brother Useless, I’ll throw in my condolences as well.
My condolences Jeff. My heart aches for you in the loss of your mother. Know that she has earned her eternal reward and awaits the day for a blessed reunion with you and the rest of her loved ones. I’ll leave you with this quote that has helped me during times like this (got me through my Dad’s death):
“If we deny Love that is given to us,
If we refuse to Love and be Loved,
Because we fear the Pain of Loss,
Then our Lives will be Empty,
Our loss…Greater”
God Bless you Jeff. I’m praying for your mom, you and the rest of your family (sans one member)