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Aug 15, 2017

Hi everyone, I've been active but not saying a whole lot these days. As you may know from my last entry, I lost my dad on March 19th. It was the hardest day of my life. After 3+ years of a terminal cancer diagnosis, he was taken unexpectedly from us while in the hospital from a massive stroke. I did not get to say goodbye-- not the way I envisioned, anyway. The stroke damaged the part of his brain responsible for speech. He couldn't talk, only squeeze my hand, and eventually went comatose. The bleeding was widespread and after a grueling 2 days of driving back and forth from hospitals and sleeping on the floor of the ICU, my siblings and I