Goodbye Dana and Jay

I really can begin to express what a bad year last year was.  Not that it was completely a wash out, but it had its moments of complete suckyness.

It’s really hard to remember the first part of last year, I know it happened because I’m here right now.  I had to live through it, perhaps the end of the year was just too much of a roller coaster ride.

In September my husband and I received a call informing us that a dear friend of ours was just diagnosed with cancer.  I don’t guess I’ll understand why the good people get this hideous disease and the assholes of the world seem to go on forever.  Let me tell you that call was a shocker, but we knew that with Amy behind him he could fight any battle.

October was an excellent month,  we went to Las Vegas for our first time and flew my son up from Fort Worth, Texas to join us .  It was his first trip also.  I could go on and on how much I enjoyed that trip.  There were so many good times, with the highlight of the trip being 15^th row center for Cher.  That night we found out that I’m a gay man in a straight woman’s body.

November 9, 2010 we got a call that was the most shocking we have ever had.  Our friend that I mentioned earlier passed away.  It was all too soon, all to sad.  You never know why, but you know that you do have to go on with your life because that’s just the way it has to be.  Without a doubt, I know that Jay is in a much better place where he has no pain and he is well.  I just hope that as time goes by Amy is able to find peace.

One of my best friends husband has also been battling cancer.  Dana had been braving a long hard battle filled with wrenching pain that no man or animal should have to endure.  Christmas Day I got the call from Becky that the end was very near.  Dana went home the afternoon of December 26, 2010.

It was such an honor to know both Dana and Jay.  I am a better person for having been a small part of their lives