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Tonight Olle, my adoptive father that has been like my father almost all my life, died just before 9PM. It was very quick. I talked to the nurse at 6PM and everything was calm then. Just a bit over 2 hours later she called and said he's gotten worse. I asked how and she said his skin changed colour and that he could have 10 minutes or 10 hours left. I was just trying to get to my sister on the phone and ask her if we should go down when the phone rang again just 15 minutes afterwards and it was the nurse telling me that it was over. He went very peacefully and in his sleep. At the end he was given a lot of morphine so he wouldn't be in pain, which he wasn't. I called my sister but we both felt that we already had said our goodbyes and therefore didn't go down to say a last goodbye. He is probably up there somewhere looking down and sensing our feelings. We haven't been able to reach our mother yet and we probably won't tonight so I will tell her when I go there ...

Yes, I'm going on a conference cruise with Cinderella together with the Rheumatic association. I hope it isn't too windy. We will meet with the Aland rheumatic association tomorrow to compare notes. After that a guided tour around Mariehamn something I did myself for almost 10 years as a tourleader but I haven't been to the mainland of Aland in many years so it should be fun. Something that is very sad is that Olle is in Intensive care with no hope. The doctor called me today while I was on my way down to see him before I go on the conference. The doctor said there is no hope now and that I should call relatives if they wanted to see him. So I have said my goodbyes and my sister and mother is on the way down now. He was so small, he had like shrunk the last few days and it was very hard to hear what he had to say. He told me to be nice and take care of mother and that my sister and I should stick together and be as close as we are now. He also told me to say hi to my sons a...

I have been neglecting my blog, I know but sometimes you really need to just do things without writing them down and sometimes you need to write everything down. Does that make sense? Anyway since last I wrote I have been to see my very good friend Anne in Norrtälje to get treatment and also our usual wonderful lunch at Ett glas and of course as usual Chantarellesoup. If you ever go there be sure to take it because it's something extra. Anne and I also talks about everything and nothing and it's so nice to be with her because you don't have to pretend or be someone else or put up a mask. You can just be yourself and I know she thinks the same. In life we show off different sides of us depending on where you are. At work you show one side of you, the professional side and just a little bit of your private (that is in general but you can have very good friends there too with whom you share more), with your family you are yourself (hopefully), with your friends another side b...

Time goes so fast and now yet another week has gone by. I had a meeting on Wednesday at my former work where all of us who don't have a new job yet met. Most of us have a year salary without no obligation to work (since our work is no longer) but we have to attend these meetings in order to get paid. It's to show that we are available and ready to work. Anyway out of 250 people that lost their jobs January 1 only 26 has new jobs 4 months later! And they say that's a good number? I think it shows how the situation is right now. Saturday I finally come around and got my hair cut and dyed, long overdue. So now I'm ready for spring :-) Today I have been to visit my Mom and Dad and I went shopping for them before, as I usually do, because Dad wants beer to drink at dinner and also he loves nuts. Mom always want candy so I always buy it to her. Mom wasn't that well today, neither was Dad. Mom fell out of her bed two days ago in the middle of the night and couldn't com...

It's Marvin's birthday today and I hope he got what I sent :-) I wish you all the best on your day and hope you will have a wonderful day. I have been kind of sad for a couple of days and I really don't know why and it isn't like me at all. I always try to see the positive side of everything but suddenly I didn't feel that. I shouldn't be feeling like this because for the first time in a very long time I (and Hasse of course) got to spend some time with Jonas last week. We went to Gavle to celebrate his birthday which we did by going to Church street, an American restaurant in Sweden and I mean really American. The following day it was time for Rockweekend where H.E.A.T performed. They were great and I had fun although I couldn't hear very well after the concert since I forgot my earplugs. I stood closest to the stage which was the first time I ever did that. In the afternoon we had planned to celebrate Jonas on his actual birthday and Lena had made strawber...

We are in Gävle celebrating Jona together with the family. The reason we choose to go to Gävle is that the Rockweekend on tour is playing here tomorrow and of course H.E.A.T is in that tour. Since our grown childen lives in Gävle as well as our 6 grandchildren we decided to go there. So tonight we went to the American restaurant - Church street - which is great. So very American. Big portions of food, peanuts on the table and candles in Jack Daniels bottles. To top it off the restaurant congratulated him with song and a wonderful ice cream cake type. Jonas was very surprised. As birthday gift from his older siblings he got a lesson in safety driving on slippery roads. Very popular but we don't know when he will do that since he doesn't take any lessons or even drive. He hasn't seen the need for it. Now we are all home at S and L's house and some are watching TV, some are doing homework and others are blogging :-). Tomorrow I will go and see P a in the afternoon we will...

Well, back on track again after Easter. Yesterday we went to S (Jonas girlfriend's mother) for dinner. Jonas and M was of course there too. We had a wonderful meal, even got easter eggs, and a delicious cake for dessert which M had made. They have a wonderful flat, but so far away from us, in the south of Stockholm, and I really really liked the interiour. After dinner and in perfect time for coffee came M's sister J and her man J and daughter M. We have been friends on Facebook for very long but never met so it was so nice to finally meet her irl :-) We had to cancel the jubileeparty on Saturday for the Rheumatic association. There were not enough interest. 22 had said they would come when the time was up and of those 22 I think 14 was us in the board. So I decided together with the board that we couldn't go through with it with so few members. That suddenly left me without anything to do on Saturday so I'm going to Rockweekend in Vilundahallen instead :-) But first we...