<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Erin, I’m so sorry for your loss and the difficult and complicated circumstances. Thinking of you,</div><div dir="ltr">Patty </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 15, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Christina White via Lekooks <lekooks@lekook.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto">Dear Erin, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’m sorry for your loss, Erin. It sounds like you gave careful thought to your decision to remain in WI. We all have to do what’s right for each of us. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sending you comfort and peace ~</div><div dir="auto">Christina White</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 5:29 PM Erin Jay via Lekooks <<a href="mailto:lekooks@lekook.org">lekooks@lekook.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><div style="width:328px;margin:16px 0px"><div dir="auto">Hi fellow quarantiners<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My father passed away yesterday morning..July 14th</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been avoiding telling people this but feel free to pass it on to the group.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's been very challenging since he entered hospice to have people tell me I should fly out there or I should have flown out there.....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I just want to make it clear that it was not an easy decision to stay here.... And I'm going to explain the decision in case you have to make a similar decision before the virus goes away</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Here are some of the reasons I had to decide against travel:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- If I had gone out there I would have needed to quarantine for 14 days because I did not want to put my 90 year old mother in jeopardy.</div><div dir="auto">--so, If had flown out there I would have been in quarantine and missed talking to him before he passed away<br></div><div dir="auto">--flying really isn't safe right now ..I'm not going to go into the details...but trust me my niece works at the CDC</div><div dir="auto">--the funeral homes mortuaries etc are very limited in how many people can come visit and there is a two week wait for a cremation....( Which means I would have had to fly back before the burial)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And here is a very surprising unknown:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The transformer outside my house was hit by lightning (warriors were sparking and up the road at least a quarter of a mile) and I had to evacuate .....</div><div dir="auto">if I had been in California, there's a good chance the house would have burned down and there would have been no one to call inthe fire since </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Summary</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A storyteller recently told about going to see her dad before he died and I almost shut the zoom concert off because it was too painful ...but then she mentioned her brother whose wife was giving birth and couldn't come to be with her father......It was at that moment I felt peace in my heart with my decision because there are a million different reasons why we can't sometimes be with the person we love at the end.....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for reading this (if you did) and for understanding....</div><div dir="auto">My prayer and hope is that you never have to make a decision like this ...and that if you do people do not question you</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Be safe... be healthy</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With love</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Erin</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div></div><div style="height:0px"></div></div><br></div>
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