You may recall I told you about going up to Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago for my mother-in-law's 90th birthday. I also mentioned that my wife's 3 brothers live at home. The oldest is almost 56. The youngest is about 50.
Well, Dottie got a call from her mother yesterday just as she was leaving work. Her mother said that she had called and knocked on her oldest brother's door yesterday morning, with no response. Not unusual--he sleeps all sorts of odd hours, and only gets up when he wants to. No job; he's on medical disability.
She called him again after noon, and still no answer, so she opened his door. She tried to wake him, but he was dead; apparently had been for quite a while. They haven't done an autopsy yet, but they will be doing one.
This is a guy who refused to go to the doctor because he believed he'd already had one heart attack, and "the doctor will only tell me to stop smoking." He believed that all the smoking research had been funded and manipulated by anti-smoking fanatics, and smoking could not possibly cause lung cancer.
As you might imagine, this is a real shock to the family. He was 3 days away from his 56th birthday.
Well, Dottie got a call from her mother yesterday just as she was leaving work. Her mother said that she had called and knocked on her oldest brother's door yesterday morning, with no response. Not unusual--he sleeps all sorts of odd hours, and only gets up when he wants to. No job; he's on medical disability.
She called him again after noon, and still no answer, so she opened his door. She tried to wake him, but he was dead; apparently had been for quite a while. They haven't done an autopsy yet, but they will be doing one.
This is a guy who refused to go to the doctor because he believed he'd already had one heart attack, and "the doctor will only tell me to stop smoking." He believed that all the smoking research had been funded and manipulated by anti-smoking fanatics, and smoking could not possibly cause lung cancer.
As you might imagine, this is a real shock to the family. He was 3 days away from his 56th birthday.