It occurred to me that there might be some confusion for some or all of the readers of this blog lol so I would like to clarify a few things:
First of all, I am having difficulty as I write this, in deciding on the manner in which I want to proceed. Perhaps, I could ask for some feedback. You may have noticed that I have been trying to write this blog without using any names. People that know or are related to me may or may not know who I am talking about at any given time. Most of the time I think that the person to whom I may be referring at any given time would know who they were and may or may not be important. I am not writing this blog to criticize or put down anyone or their actions, if I wanted to do that, I would tell them privately and not in a public forum. Of course, there is always the possibility that someone erroneously thinks that some comment was about them; I cannot be responsible for what someone else "reads" into what I write. Like I said, if anything was intentional, it would not be here ;-D
I know that the opposite of what I am doing is to, of course, use names or "change" them. I think that there would be too much red tape to get everyone's permission so I did not offend anyone, you know what I mean? Gosh, when is someone NOT offended these days lol
Another option is if I occasionally interject these blogs with explanatory interludes aimed at lifting any confusion lol I could even answer specific questions anyone might have; I thought that might be useful once we get into this full swing so to speak lol
This brings me to another aspect of this blog that kinda sorta wants feedback lol you see, I have no problem whatsoever in being quite frank and/or graphic in my details of the operation and subsequent recovery; that's just my nature ;-/ I am very no nonsense and I will try my best to use proper terminology. I believe though, that the graphic details could be deemed inappropriate for young children, unless you were a child like me lol where very little phazed me ;-/ I am not squimish, not even when it's my own blood, and I do not think this blog will be done justice, if I "sugarcoat" things for the squimish; I have to live this and I would like to be forthright about it. I would totally be willing to add a disclaimer/warning of graphic detail when the time comes - again feed back?
So, until I decide, and hopefully before the actual countdown starts Monday, I will have; I will add interjections as I see fit lol Starting with this one:
Some of you may not know that I am blessed with not one but two wonderful families. My biological mother and father were never married, for reasons we need not go into here; I ended up with a sometimes overwhelmingly huge family; 12 siblings all told and quite a history from what little I know lol I was born in Canada but when I was 10 days old, my Mother brought me back to the U.S. where she was already residing with my adopted Dad. He obviously, gave me his name in the adoption, and I didnt find out about my "other" family until my Mom and Dad divorced and Mom moved herself, my younger brother and sister and I back to Canada. I have lived in Canada since June of 1969, I was not quite 8 years old when we returned here. I feel very lucky to have such a big family and as technologically phobic I am becoming in my middle age, I have to thank social network sites like CrackBook for keeping me in touch with them whereas our busy lives might not cross paths as often as we'd sometimes like.
So, the recent passing of my adopted Dad, affects my younger sister and brother more directly than anyone else; there are many who may or may not have known, who he was to me or how I fit in there lol so that was my point I guess ;-/
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