I am sad to say that this Marine, Len, has passed suddenly at age 84.
He wasn’t feeling quite well about a week and a half ago and went to the hospital to get checked out. They diagnosed pulmonary edema and admitted him. The began treatment and a few hours later he was feeling much better and send his wife home to get some sleep and come back to the hospital in the morning.
Shortly after midnight, he crashed and went code blue. They revived him…but a few hours later, he was gone.
He lived life fully and was completely independent and active right up until the moment he died. That’s as good as anyone could ever hope for.
We are saddened by his passing and it has been a difficult time getting through stabilizing his surviving wife financially as well as helping my wife cope with the loss of her father. But, we are getting there…and doing was needs to be done.
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers on his illness that I originally posted this thread about and know he survived for another 3 full years of life.
We will never forget him.