SOME EXTREMELY SAD NEWS

Tomorrow morning, after the girls wake up, we are heading into Devils Lake so that I can watch D'Artagnan, Forrester, and Eris for Rainy when she goes to Gilbertson's Funeral Home with her mother and make the funeral arrangements for her father, Charlie.

Charlie fell and broke his hip a few weeks ago. He was sent to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks. The doctors decided to do a full hip replacement. Charlie flat lined during the surgery but they were able to bring him back. Since then, he had been sedated and on a ventilator because he could not breath on his own. Today, Rainy said that the doctors told her and her mother that her father suffered brain damage and would not be able to breath on his own without the respirator. Carol and Rainy knew that is not how Charlie would have wanted to live, so today they took him off of life support. Charlie passed away this morning. I know the decision must have been a terrible one to make. I cannot imagine what they are all going through right now and I give them all of my love at this very hard time. Jason is coming home. He is supposed to be boarding a plane tomorrow around 8:30 a.m. and Rainy was not sure of his arrival time when I spoke to her this evening.

R.I.P Charlie. You were a great man.