Lime Sherbet, Dead Friends, and Baseball

No they don't really have anything to do with one another, do they? But, I was thinking of changing the name of this blog to match the funny new color I have on this current template. That's what I get for screwing around with my old template.

In my life I have lost three or four people that I consider friends or really good aquaintances. I know there will be more as I get older.

The most recent loss was a couple of weeks ago. Ron finally lost his fight with cancer. He had cancer in one of his eyes about five years ago. He almost made it to the five year mark in his remission. About a year and a half ago, the cancer came back. This time it was in his teeming in his liver. Ron was given six months to tie up any loose ends here on Earth. Ron stretched that six months into another year and a half.

I caught up with Ron recently at the Union hall when we voted in the new contract. I asked him how he was doing, and if he was getting better. I knew even before the question left my lips what the answer was going to be. Looking at the man standing before me, with his features swollen from his cancer, and the meds that were constantly being pushed into his body from a little box strapped around his waist, I knew he was dying. he told me he wasn't going to make it. I told Ron I was sorry. He looked into my eyes, and asked me why I was sorry? Everybody dies, he said. I just have a better idea of when I will go. I didn't say much else, I could only nod my head, and wonder what that must feel like. I hope I never know....................

I'm so glad baseball is back on, I can't stand the NBA, and while I like Hockey, it's just not the same as baseball.