D D My best friend Nancy....My sister Nancy

Going to be a cool day...more like NE  weather___ 40's...Maybe even  more rain.
Jill took Logan and his classmate to the firestation last night where Butchie works  to work on their project that's due tomorrow. Raining too hard yesterday to spray paint.  Will take a picture of the finished project and post it. Will take the two of them to carry it into school. HEAVY..... I shit you not!
   Talked to my best girlfriend Nancy a long time while the house was empty. Just moi and hubby were home....that's EMPTY. 
Nancy is 10 days younger than moi and we met in 1966 through our children. At that time she had 6 kids and moi had 7.  This was before we had the spouses we have now.   Sniff, sniff...in 1974 she packed her kids up and went to AK.. she's a pioneer woman all the way. Knows how to gut and cook any wild animal. Shoot a gun, build a log cabin, plants a huge garden, cans food for the winter months. We are such exact opposites and yet the bond we have is like having a twin. For years we have kept in touch through letters , hers were sent to a P.O. BOX as she always lived outside the city. Such was the case maybe 10 years back when she started hemmoraging from an ulcer and it took over an  hours and a half for an ambulance to get there and then the trip to the hospital. Almost died. Now has designed  and helped build a compact house with her hubby, kids and friends... closer to a town.
Since Comcast has offered a package where it includes tv, internet and phone service anywhere in the United States, moi has been taking advantage of the long distance calling.   AK is just a dial away with no long distance fee.   yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Her hubby suffered a stoke this past winter that has left his left hand and leg pretty much useless, BUT he did recover his speech.   another ...yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
As fate would have it, she is now a care giver too.  Ironic!  I shit you not!  Neither of us like driving in inclimate weather any more. She has no choice as they have no kids living with them ( have in past ) and it's a long winding road she has to travel from Houston to Wasilla to his therapy.
In the back of my mind is always the possibilty that someday we will get together in person again. If just for a short visit.... sigh!
   My sister's name was Nancy... she passed away from cancer at age 52.  The cancer began in one of her kidneys..they removed that kidney. It spread to her spine, brain  EVERYWHERE.
Years before I had read the book Jean's Way and passed it on to my sister to read. It's about a terminally ill wife's decision to end her life with her husband's help when she felt the time was right.
Days before my sister passed away she reminded me of the pact that we made... It was so long ago that I had forgotten that we both pledged we would help each other die if we were in that same situation.
She struggled to speak and her voice was so weak that I had to lean close to her face." Do you remember our promise to each other", she said. " Will you give me something to help me die." It all came rushing back to me and with tears in my eyes I lied and said yes.  Will that quilt ever go away??? The next time she asked for a sip of water I put the cup to her lips and she said " is it in there?" I shook my head yes, she sipped and sipped and threw it up.  She was on a morphine drip...was she aware that whatever she thought I had put in her water was in there or that was what made her throw??  She would have visions of children being around her... " Who's children are these?", she would ask... I told her they were maybe the children she was going to be watching in Heaven.  Long sighing..."yeah"  with a radiant smile on her face. Nancy had 9 living children, lost 2 baby boys ( one at birth and one 2 hours old ) plus she adopted 2 different daughters babies so that they would remain with family. Yonna was 13 and the youngest when she passed away on our mother's birthday, January 15, 1993.    Nancy loved babies and children.
That's All Folks!