IC Disease

My brother-in-law died this morning at 10:30 a.m. and one of the greatest men I have ever had the privilege to know is gone from my life.  I wish I could explain to those who didn’t know him what he was like and what it was that made him so special.  He was the type of person who would give you the shirt off of his back, not think twice about it, and go back to working or doing whatever it was he was doing.  And he was always doing something for somebody.  He lived for his family and he doted on his wife like no man I have ever known. 

He had a terrific sense of humor that he still carried up until the last few weeks of his life.  The pain and the destruction of cancer finally took that from him and he became a shell of the man he used to be.  He loved to pick and joke with me and we would have a ball cracking jokes with each other and with me acting like a dumb blonde around him. 

He left behind a grieving wife, two children, two grandchildren and a slew of nieces and nephews who all thought he was the greatest.  We will all miss him terribly and there will always be a void in our family.