Love you Dad.

My dad was known to be the most genuine friend, husband, father, and grandfather to all his friends and family. He was always known as a jokester.

He lost his battle on June 15, 2009.

We've been living in AZ with my sister for the past couple months and since my dad had been diagnosed there late March 2009. The fastest 3 months i could ever imagine.

We decided to move back to MI beginning of June so dad could be with his friends and to where our home was. I packed my stuff and my boyfriend and i drove to Mi the first week of june, then mom and dad were scheduled to come back to MI the 21st of June which was father's day.

I was in MI for a week and a half when my sister called. Dad was feeling really sick from the chemo to the brain and chemo for the lungs. The morning of 6/10 he had felt really sick vomitting and very weak. It wasn't like him though, the day before i left he was perfectly fine. He didn't look sick at all.

They admitted my dad to ER and ran some fluids in him because he was probably really dehydrated.

My sister called really upset so i knew something was wrong, Dad almost coded throughout the night, he had a really high temp of 104.0 and an infection was setting in. i immediately booked a flight to AZ the next day.

When I saw dad that night he was intubated and wasn't able to respond to us when we spoke to him. The nurses said he could hear us though, my heart just hurt when i saw all his stats seeing his heart rate rise when i spoke to him. This was the only form of communicating because dad couldn't talk back. The night before, my dad was just talking to the nurse about wanting to watch the Red Wings Game the next night.

Dad wasn't getting better through the next 5 days, the Dr. said he wouldn't be able to make it through the night so we decided to DNR and let him be.

My sister and i were there for his last breaths. It was an indescribable feeling. I just couldn't believe he was gone. We weren't prepared for him to go yet.

We flew home the following day to MI and sent dad back to MI as well to be with all his friends and family one last time. We had a beautiful service for him, unfortunatly it was the day my parents were supposed to fly in, on Father's day.

I love you dad, you were such a fighter, i think about you everyday, i miss you so much, and i can't wait to see you again one day.

Love you