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I got up early again, and again stopped by McDs' to get Karen a sausage McMuffin with egg... she ate about three bites of it.

As usual, she was pretty chipper during the morning... but it doesn't take long for her to tire out.

Jan was there pretty early again, and it was a beautiful day, so we went outside. I left her with Jan while I came home and washed the sheets in the guest bedroom... I hadn't realized that Debbie was going to be staying for a while.

Karen and Jan's' cousin Phil from San Antonio came in about 13:00, and then her classmate Lewis came about an hour later... and in another hour her brother Chuck and his wife Judy arrived from Baton Rouge.

Lewis and Chuck were friends long, long ago down in Parsons, so they had a lot of catching up to do.

Lewis had to leave about 16:30, but he had wanted to meet Debbie, but she arrived too late for that to happen....

Then our real estate lady came in with her daughter and they stayed about fifteen minutes... I talked to Chuck and Judy out by the aviary while they visited with Karen, then I went in and said goodby to her and came on home... she will be well taken care of.

My original plan was to go back, but I think that I won't, I'll just go to bed really early....

I talked with Karen on the phone a few minutes ago, she ran everyone out and she's going to sleep, so I won't be going back to see her again tonight.

Tomorrow we will speak with the counsellor at Hospice at 09:00; I'm hoping that she can give us a better idea of what is going to happen, and maybe ease Karen's mind a bit about dying... and maybe even mine. Right now, I am just so sad, and so pissed... even though I know that Karen has had a good life, and that I have been able to enjoy a good part of that with her.

I don't think that anything can make losing her any easier.