60 to 60
Day 16
Manuel Snitkin October 6, 1919 - February 9, 2015
Yes, it has been a while since my last post. The last six weeks have been difficult, at best.
As I've posted previously, my father, at 95, had been in a nursing home, surly and defiant as always. At the beginning of February my niece, Samantha, who was my parents' health proxy due to her RN status, texted my siblings and me to say we needed to go see him, he wasn't doing at all well. I drove up to Suffern that day, and she was right, he was fairly incoherent, barely eating or drinking, mostly unresponsive. That was Monday the 2nd. I went to see him three times that week, and on Sunday the 8th he was the worst I'd seen him, and I knew it was just a matter of hours, or a day or two before he was gone. The next day, Monday, February 9th, we found out he had passed away.
Without going into details, we had a memorial for him on the 18th. It was a small turnout, but we focused on the positive and remembered him well.
Whenever we lose someone we tend to become philosophical. From the day we are born we train for the future. We learn to talk, walk, read and write. We learn mathematics and about historical events. We engage in some form of athletics, music, art. All of this in order to find ourselves, to figure out what we would be doing as adults to earn a living. Some of us build our bodies, some our minds, some, both.
Our ultimate goal is to leave a legacy, something for our offspring and theirs to retain, to learn from in order to do a little better than their predecessors. Some legacies, however, are more difficult to realize. Sometimes we need to dig a little deeper, look past the outward bluster in order to see the rest of the person. Call me a cockeyed optimist, but in spite of what may seem unforgivable, there is always something redeeming about every human being that walks the Earth.
Well, during all this, my ex-wife's car also died from natural causes. The transmission on her 1999 Audi A4 with over 200,000 miles stopped functioning, and the cost to repair it was way more than it was worth to do so. So I have been Mr. Taximan for her and our daughter. We're attempting to get her a replacement car, but credit issues have been confounding our efforts.
Add to all this schoolwork, which has piled up in an overwhelming fashion, and you can see why I haven't found the time to post anything for the last five weeks.
I may not be able to add to this every day, as I have to catch up on life - schoolwork, housework, and most importantly, a job search! My unemployment runs out in two weeks, and I need to find something, fast! So, anyone reading this who knows of anyone looking for a writer and/or a social media marketer, please let me know! Also, if any small companies you know of are struggling or just getting started, and are in need of someone to work on a consultative basis to get their business moving forward, contact me. My website has a contact form.
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