They say love is blind, and apparently so is hope. I have been seeing every small triumph of my Dad's and ignoring the bad stuff.
His main problem has been congestive heart failure which he has been dealing with successfully for 10 years. Since his broken hip he has been unable to maintain his active lifestyle and has begun to slip away from us into bouts of dementia as the disease progresses. He is being  changed from home health care to hospice care and is expected to live only a few months or weeks.
Thanks for all your kind words and support. You mean more to me than you can know.
John

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy