Goodbye

So I was going to blog about how great my Dad was doing in hospice. Those nurses were so great. He was doing so great that they sent him home. We were going to have Easter dinner with him at home.

Then on Good Friday he suddenly passes away.

It was a little shocking. We thought he had a little more time since he was doing so well. We spent Easter weekend planning his funeral.

While funerals suck, it does feel good that we gave him the exact funeral he would have wanted. He was in the navy so he had a full military funeral. It was pretty great actually. One of his shipmates gave the eulogy. It was so great and almost bummed me out that I didn’t join the navy. The camaraderie that fellow shipmates have is something else. Lots of great stories are now lost with my Dad. We had a police escort to the cemetery. Seeing the cops and navy personnel saluting my Dad was something else. It was a really great way to say goodbye. I miss him, I’m proud of him, and we said goodbye the way he would have wanted.