Since this covers a lot of things I can't talk to people I know in real life, I'm just floating it out into the internet ether.
My father-in-law passed away last Sunday. It wasn't altogether unexpected--he'd been fighting multiple myeloma (a bone cancer) for the last two and a half years, along with suffering from breathing complications from untreated scoliosis and an unset broken nose--it was just a lot faster than we expected. He'd been in the hospital the previous weekend, moved to the nursing home on Monday, hospice on Saturday and died Sunday night. The part of my brain that always has to write a more impressive story than reality k